Sentence examples for district bench from inspiring English sources

He was 44 when President Reagan put him on the Southern District bench in 1985.

As I noted in my piece about the judge, last May, she has never fit in with her colleagues on the Southern District bench.

This can produce its own dangers -- when a district bench nominee is less than qualified, he or she must be scrutinized and rejected, and that can take time.

As the commission's inquiry concluded, in 1972, Mr. Knapp was named to the Southern District bench by President Richard M. Nixon and remained on the court until his death, most recently in senior status.

It was from the district court bench in 1971 that Judge Ferguson declared the "four-year rule" of the National Basketball Association to be a violation of antitrust laws.

At the time of the trial, Judge Sotomayor, who was nominated for the Supreme Court on Tuesday by President Obama, had been on the federal district court bench for three years.

Votes on two circuit court nominees are pending in the Senate and sixteen nominees are awaiting confirmation to district court bench.

School officials initially installed privacy curtains in unused areas of the locker room but have since replaced them with stalls, complete with doors, hooks and benches, district spokesman Tom Petersen said.

The judiciary in the state consists of the Allahabad High Court in Allahabad, the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court, district courts namely the District court of Etawah, the district court of Kanpur Dehat and district courts in each districts as Uttar Pradesh Judiciary, session courts in each district or Sessions Division, lower courts and judges at the taluka level.

A 24-year-old Los Angeles man was charged Monday with attempted murder after a homeless woman was set on fire last week as she slept on a suburban bus bench, the district attorney's office said.

Ruling from the bench, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan rejected D'Souza's contention that last month's U.S. Supreme Court decision striking some limits on political donations also rendered a straw donor prohibition as unconstitutionally vague.