How to Use federal case in a Sentence

federal case

noun
Definition of federal casenext
  • Brown faced misdemeanor charges but was not named in the federal case against Hammond.
    — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 8 June 2022
  • What happens to the federal cases if Trump wins the election?
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The judge in the other federal case, Tanya Chutkan, received death threats.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Bi Chao Chen, who appears in a photo with a defendant in the federal case, has had his own run-ins with the law.
    — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The federal case deals with an Arizona law that gave fetuses human rights, a law that is currently barred by court order from being enforced.
    — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2024
  • Farrar does not yet have an attorney in the federal case related to the Border Patrol vehicle.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Cohen entered a guilty plea to tax evasion in 2018 in the federal case, and is now the key witness against Trump in the New York case.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Nearly 40 percent of those federal cases involve challenges to laws that keep guns away from people who are charged with or convicted of felonies, according to a review of the data.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
  • The status of the federal case is unclear; no charges have been filed.
    — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Chaudry faces a maximum of 10 years in prison for each count in the federal case.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The new federal case is only the latest gun charge for Lil Zay.
    — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Fox and Croft are among six defendants charged in the federal case.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Lane and Kueng are both serving 2 1/2-year prison sentences in the federal case.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 2 May 2023
  • With the federal case against Crusius over, attention turns to the state charges.
    — Alfredo Corchado, Dallas News, 7 July 2023
  • The pardon only applied to the federal case and does not preclude the state charges.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Online court records do not list attorneys for the men in the federal case.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 5 Dec. 2022
  • By then, the brothers had pleaded guilty in their federal case.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Goines has also pleaded not guilty in the federal case.
    — Andrea Salcedo, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Erie, based in the Pennsylvania city of the same name, had sought a trial by jury in the federal case.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Sayfullo Saipov could face the death penalty in the federal case.
    — Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Both McMichaels received life prison sentences in the federal case, while Bryan was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
    — Russ Bynum, ajc, 11 Mar. 2023
  • In the federal case, Trump pardoned Bannon in the closing days of his White House term, ending that case against him.
    — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The settlement with the states doesn’t cover the federal case, which Walmart has sought to have dismissed.
    — Sarah Nassauer, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Special counsel Jack Smith wants both federal case trials to start in the first half 2024.
    — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • And Smith’s team is seeking a Jan. 2 trial date in the federal case over Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Smith's team is seeking a Jan. 2 trial date in the federal case over Trump's efforts to overturn the election.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In fact, in D.C. tomorrow there's going to be a hearing about one of his federal cases where his lawyers have pushed to have the trial in 2026.
    — CBS News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Although a central figure in that federal case, Alex hasn't been charged.
    — Fox News, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The only thing keeping him behind bars is the federal case, which is scheduled for trial in 2025.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2024
  • The two federal cases were scheduled to go to trial in the spring but have been slowed significantly for different reasons.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 4 July 2024

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