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9 unusual facts about Federal District


Brasiliense Futebol Clube

The Brasiliense Futebol Clube is a Brazilian football team, based in Taguatinga, Brasília, in Distrito Federal.

He bought the team called Atlântida Futebol Clube of Taguatinga and renamed it Brasiliense Futebol Clube.

Joaquim Cruz

Joaquim Carvalho Cruz (born March 12, 1963 in Taguatinga, DF) is a former Brazilian athlete, winner of the 800 m at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Planaltina

Planaltina, Federal District, administrative region in the Federal District, Brazil

Planaltina Esporte Clube

Planaltina Esporte Clube, commonly known as Planaltina, are a Brazilian football team from Planaltina, in Distrito Federal.

Sobradinho Esporte Clube

Sobradinho Esporte Clube, commonly known as Sobradinho, are a Brazilian football team from Sobradinho, in Distrito Federal.

Sociedade Esportiva do Gama

Gama is a Brazilian football team from Gama, in Distrito Federal, founded on November 15, 1975.

Taguatinga

Taguatinga, Federal District, administrative region in the Federal District, Brazil

Taguatinga Esporte Clube

Taguatinga Esporte Clube, commonly known as Taguatinga, are a Brazilian football team from Taguatinga, in Distrito Federal.


AnimaNaturalis

As an international non-profit organization, it has offices in Madrid (Spain), Cadiz (Spain), Barcelona (Spain), Bogota (Colombia), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Caracas (Venezuela), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Lima (Peru), Logroño (Spain), Mexico Federal District (Mexico), Montevideo (Uruguay) and Santiago de Chile (Chile).

Cupalite

Both minerals are thus far restricted to the area of Listvenitovyi Stream, in the Khatyrka ultramafic (silicon-poor) zone of the Koryak–Kamchatka fold area, Koryak Mountains, Beringovsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.

District of Columbia National Guard

After Congress established the Federal District in District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, local Militia units were reorganized again, to form what would become the District of Columbia National Guard.

Mauritia flexuosa

The government of the Federal District - the Brazilian state where the country's capital, Brasília, is located - is called Palácio do Buriti ("Buriti Palace").

Paracatu River

Its main tributary, the Preto, has its source in Lagoa Feia near Formosa in the state of Goiás and it forms the boundary with the Federal District.


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2003 mutual fund scandal

On November 20, 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced “charges concerning undisclosed market timing against Harold J. Baxter and Gary L. Pilgrim in the Commissions’ pending action in federal district court in Philadelphia.”

Air India Flight 855

U.S. Federal District Judge James M. Fitzgerald, in a 139-page decision issued 1 November 1985, rejected charges of negligence against the Boeing Company, Lear Siegler Inc, and the Collins Division of Rockwell International Corporation in a suit related to the crash.

Alan Z. Thornburg

His father, Lacy Thornburg, is a former North Carolina attorney general, state superior court judge, and federal district court judge.

Arne Aus den Ruthen Haag

The government of the Federal District responded by lowering the budget for Miguel Hidalgo by 107 million pesos (approximately 9.5 million dollars) and Aus den Ruthen Haag appealed the decision before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.

Avellaneda Partido

Connecting it to the federal district are two main bridges, being the most important the Puente Pueyrredón, that connects Mitre, the main Avenue in Avellaneda Partido, directly with the 9 de Julio Avenue.

Black World Wide Web protest

The Communications Decency Act which gave rise to the protest was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court by a 9-0 vote on June 26, 1997, which upheld a federal district court ruling.

Blatt

Solomon Blatt, Jr., federal district judge in South Carolina and former trustee of the University of South Carolina

Carlos Flores Vizcarra

Flores Vizcarra served as Federal Deputy during the LVI Legislature of the Mexican Congress, representing Mexico City Federal District.

Center for Justice and Accountability

In a related case, CJA and pro bono co-counsel Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP filed a lawsuit on July 11, 2007 in a Maryland federal district court against Rivera Rondón, a Peruvian former army lieutenant, for his role in the Accomarca Massacre.

Corumbá River

Its source is in the Montes de Pireneus, near Pirenópolis, state of Goiás, near the boundary with the Federal District and its length ifs 567 km.

Dmitry Kozak

He was previously regional development minister in the Russian cabinet headed by Viktor Zubkov and in 2004-2007 he served as presidential plenipotentiary representative in the Southern Federal District (North Caucasus and Southern European Russia).

Dora Irizarry

In 2003, Irizarry was nominated by President George W. Bush to serve as a Federal District Court Judge in the Eastern District of New York.

Emilio Alvarez

Emilio Álvarez Icaza, president of the Human Rights Commission of the Mexican Federal District

Friars Club of Beverly Hills

However, in 2005 the New York Friars' Club commenced a lawsuit claiming trademark infringement under the Lanham Act, among other claims; in September 2007 the federal district court granted substantial portions of the New York Friars Club's motion for summary judgment, which effectively forced the California club to cease operations under the Friars Club name.

Greber Plan

The Greber Plan, or General Report on the Plan for the National Capital (1946–1950), was an urban plan developed in 1950 by Jacques Gréber for the Federal District Commission of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Implications of Puerto Rico's current political status

In addition, in 1984 one of the judges of the federal district court, Chief Judge Juan R. Torruella, a native of the island, was appointed to serve in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit with jurisdiction over Puerto Rico, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, and New Hampshire.

John Andrew Ross

After applying for a vacant federal district court seat, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill personally interviewed Ross on March 13, 2010.

Kent A. Jordan

He was previously a federal district judge on the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.

Lysander Spooner

Spooner's The Unconstitutionality of Slavery was cited in the 2008 Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. Heller, which struck down the federal district's ban on handguns.

Madero

Gustavo A. Madero, D.F., one of the 16 delegaciones into which Mexico's Federal District is divided

Morse v. Frederick

His suit was dismissed by the federal district court, but on appeal, the Ninth Circuit reversed, concluding that Frederick's speech rights were violated.

Nancy D. Freudenthal

According to the questionnaire that Freudenthal submitted to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, after the election of Barack Obama, Freudenthal's husband, Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal, asked her if she would be interested in serving as a federal district judge for Wyoming.

Rudolph T. Randa

In 1992, Randa was appointed by President George H. W. Bush to become a federal district judge in the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York

Paul Schenck challenged a Federal District Court injunction that restricted "sidewalk counselors" from approaching abortion clinic patients and others with Bibles, tracts and pro-life messages.

Severo-Zapadny

Northwestern Federal District (Severo-Zapadny federalny okrug), a federal district of Russia

Sibirsky

Siberian Federal District (Sibirsky federalny okrug), a federal district of Russia

Steak-umm

In 2012, Federal District Judge Lawrence F. Stengel ruled in favor of the owners of Steak'em up, ruling that the two establishments aren't direct competitors and there is no significant evidence that consumers are confused by the names.

Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr.

He was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and is the son of retired federal district judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Sr., grandson of attorney Rush Limbaugh, Sr., and a cousin of prominent political commentators Rush and David Limbaugh.

United States v. Oregon

Sohappy v. Smith (302 F.Supp. 899), a 1969 United States federal district court case concerning fishing rights of Native Americans combined with United States v. Oregon

Uralsky

Ural Federal District (Uralsky federalny okrug), a federal district of Russia

Valley of Mexico

They have been discovered in many parts of the Federal District itself, particularly during the construction of the city's Metro lines and in the neighborhoods of Del Valle in the center, Lindavista to the center-north and Coyoacán in the south of the city.

Volga Federal District

Mikhail Babich was appointed the federal district's Presidential Envoy on December 15, 2011.

Walter I. Smith

In November 1900, Smith was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress to serve out the remainder of the term of Smith McPherson, who had resigned to accept a presidential nomination as federal district court judge.

Yuzhny Okrug

Southern Federal District (Yuzhny federalny okrug), a federal district of Russia