The court refused a call for a judicial review of a ban by a school district on the placing of the ten commandments on a fence at school baseball field in Downey, California.

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Generally, a final ruling by a district court can be appealed to the United States court of appeals in the federal judicial circuit in which the district court is located.

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"Americans for Prosperity believes that government should be reined in when it overreaches its legal authority, and here, the appeals court played that crucial role, reining in a district court decision that was judicial activism at its core, " said spokesman Levi Russell.

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Senior U.S. District Judge David Briones, a 17-year judicial veteran, had noticed the pattern in the cases.

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Cotswold District Council has announced it intends to seek a judicial review of the government's decision to allow "extensive house building" in Tetbury.

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Thanet District Council said it had received formal notification of an application for a judicial review.

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She is a notorious figure in the Russian judicial system, who has been accused of putting pressure on district judges.

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Judicial Watch, a conservative group, is suing the administration in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to push for the release of all records from Obama's inauguration to Aug. 10, 2009, when the organization originally sought the information from the U.S. Secret Service.

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On slide three, you can see that the average wait time for our judicial nominees to get a vote on the floor of the Senate, both for the circuit court and the district court is three to four times as long as it was under our predecessor.

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