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federal case
noun
- a matter that falls within the jurisdiction of a federal court or a federal law-enforcement agency.
Word History and Origins
Origin of federal case1
Idioms and Phrases
- make a federal case (out) of, Informal. to exaggerate the importance of or make an issue out of (something trivial).
Example Sentences
He has yet to enter a plea in the federal case.
County supervisors approved the settlement Tuesday on the threshold of a trial in the federal case, which was brought by eight plaintiffs who contended that police and prosecutors had fabricated the charges against them.
Those lawsuits are still winding their way through the courts, with Citibank seeking to move them to arbitration, which it has succeeded in doing in one federal case.
The recent federal case comes nearly two decades after Wiederhorn was first ensnared in financial crimes.
His lawyers have also "vehemently" denied all the accusations made against him in the federal case and dozens of civil lawsuits that have been filed against him in recent months.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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