federal cases
Supreme Court matters
Federal cases are legal matters heard in United States federal courts rather than state courts—typically involving federal law, constitutional questions, or disputes crossing state lines.
The phrase appears idiomatically in make a federal case out of something, meaning to treat a minor matter as though it were serious enough for the highest courts: It was just a small mistake—no need to make a federal case out of it.
- lawsuitCivil court proceeding
- criminal chargesFormal accusations of lawbreaking
- courtroomJudicial proceedings chamber
- judiciaryLaw-interpreting government branch
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
class action · habeas corpus · trials · appeal · court of appeals · jurisdiction · sovereign immunity · evidence · burden of proof · indictment · verdict · constitutional law · district judges · appellate court · interstate commerce · Supreme Court rulings · Supreme Court · legal precedent
- court casestrials, murder trials, verdicts, criminal appeals, judgments
- court recordscourt documents, court transcripts, court records, court record, court orders
- crime recordscriminal records, arrest records, police records, police reports, mugshots
- legal caseslawsuit, litigation, murder trials, criminal trials, lawsuits
- human traffickinghuman trafficking, trafficking, traffickers, trafficking victims, victims
- case lawcourt opinions, court decisions, binding precedent, judicial decisions, court ruling
federal casesno big deal
Inconsequential matter
small potatoes · trifles · nothing special · non-issues · molehills
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