Definition of federal case
: big deal
- don't make a federal case out of it
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The federal case doesn’t raise allegations of racial profiling but records show the false charges were filed against a black Haitian-American teen identified only as T.D. in the indictment.
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The Criminal Division handles specialized criminal prosecutions around the country and is at the helm of some of the highest profile federal cases.
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Kavanaugh, 53, is a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, an influential bench that reviews federal cases from the nation’s capital.
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The federal case stems from Morrison’s arrest on March 13, 2017, by the San Francisco Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Unit.
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Nobody has been sentenced to death in an Alaska federal case since statehood, Martin said.
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According to Phillips, the jury in the federal case deliberated for a total of about 10 hours over two days last week before deciding that Hill, who was intoxicated when police shot him, was 99 percent responsible for his own death.
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Congress passed the sweeping 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which included a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years for federal cases in which drugs resulted in death or serious injury.
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The federal case against Manafort is still ongoing.
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First Known Use of federal case
1950
FEDERAL CASE Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of federal case for English Language Learners
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law : a legal case that will be decided in a U.S. federal court
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