How to Use high court in a Sentence

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  • But the high court didn't rule on the merits of the case.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Mar. 2024
  • If the high court strikes down Biden's plan, what next?
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2023
  • That lawsuit went to the high court, which upheld the law in 2021.
    — Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The case was appealed again and will now be heard in the high court.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Those concerns were not enough to sway the state’s high court.
    — Jenna Russell, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The high court is expected to take up the case in March or April.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The high court has ruled twice that the rule can remain in place in the meantime.
    — Dareh Gregorian, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The high court had blocked the law from taking effect by a 5-4 vote.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • She is set to become the first Black woman to serve on the high court.
    — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The appeal sought for the high court to order Judge Hall to dismiss the case.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The polls also showed that support for the high court is on the decline.
    — Rylee Wilson, Dallas News, 29 June 2022
  • Roberts was, at the time, four years into what is now a 17-year tenure on the high court.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The high court has not yet issued its decision in the case.
    — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
  • From time to time, there have been demands for reform of the high court, Graber said.
    — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Fischer asked the state’s high court to review the case.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The high court declined the request, leaving the matter with the appeals court.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 7 Feb. 2024
  • A decade later, the Sacketts are back before the high court.
    — Time, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The high court could agree to hear the case, or let the lower court's ruling stand as the final word on the issue.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Backers of the reforms have long accused the high court of overreach and elitism.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
  • In an unsigned decision, the state’s high court held that the group Ohio Stands Up!
    — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2021
  • In short: The idea of ethics reform for the high court has penetrated the zeitgeist.
    — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Evans, who is Black, would be the first openly lesbian woman on the high court.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The range of potential decisions by the high court is vast.
    — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 6 Feb. 2024
  • But the justices were fractured as to how far the high court should go with deciding the case.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 July 2024
  • The state’s high court has not said whether the state constitution protects the right.
    — David Eggert, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The high court in August put the deal on hold to consider the 2nd Circuit’s ruling.
    — David Ovalle, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The lawsuit asks the state's high court to order the commission to redraw its maps.
    — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Months later, the high court did what all the experts said could never be done and struck down the mandate.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 29 Jan. 2022
  • The high court ruled that corporations and labor unions have a First Amendment right to political expression.
    — Chris Wade | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Dec. 2024
  • During oral arguments last week, most of the high court's justices homed in on the central point that under the law, TikTok could continue operating with a different algorithm than ByteDance's.
    — Angrej Singh, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025

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