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What is "state court"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
state court
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A summary of the federal and state court reporter system appears in Table 1. 1.
▪ Since the teacher failed to stop discussing her beliefs in school, a state court ruled that her actions were not protected.
▪ The appeal would have to be filed within a year of exhausting state court appeals.
▪ The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in state court in Houston, seeks unspecified damages.
▪ The railroad brought suit in state court on interstate-commerce grounds and won.
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State court (United States)

In the United States, a state court has jurisdiction over disputes with some connection to a U.S. state, as opposed to the federal government. State courts handle the vast majority of civil and criminal cases in the United States; United States federal courts handle different types of cases.

State court

Two English-speaking federations use the phrase "state court" to describe courts operated by their constituent states:

  • State court (United States)
  • State court (Australia)

Two non-English-speaking federations have similar courts whose names can be translated into English as "state court":

  • Landesgericht (Germany)
  • Judiciary of Brazil#State-level judiciary

Usage examples of "state court".

Because neither I, nor they will be able to set foot in state court.

Besides, if that's all we go with it will probably be up to the state court of appeals if we use it, because if Bremmer has any kind of a lawyer at all that's where he'll take it.

Necessary to inform you gentlemen that a murder case tried before a United States court is entirely different from a murder case tried before a State court.

He was able to plead in state court under an agreement with federal prosecutors.

It was the search warrant signed by a state court judge and had just been faxed to the ESU command post truck.

I can tell you this: If Weeks were being tried in a state court, you can bet the attorney general would have completed the plea bargain and gotten Haskell's testimony, and these murders never would have happened.