federal court
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3.1
- noun
- /ˈfɛdərəl kɔrt/
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tribunal federal
- The lawsuit was filed in federal court because it involved a dispute over federal law.
- federal court jurisdiction
- state and federal courts
- federal court of appeals
The defendant, Wells Fargo, removed the case to federal court and then moved to dismiss.
- The defendant, Wells Fargo, removed the case to federal court and then moved to dismiss.
- Before we could launch it, he refiled in federal court on that same claim.
- So for example, I was arguing the case before a three judge federal court in Trenton, NJ.
- And these questions remain and are being decided by, as I said, state and federal courts as we go forward.
- So they they filed lawsuit in state court and they also filed one in federal court.
- All of these facts come from the complaint that YouTube filed in federal court.
- The agencies still need to convince federal courts to apply these guidelines, and so far that's not going too well.
- law, bring a case in federal court for any crimes that a federal prosecutor could have brought.
- Flynn was in federal court today to be sentenced for lying to the FBI and Trump was on the sidelines cheering him on.
- We're filing in federal court and we're really, you know, there there isn't.
- There's a, there is a, there's a threshold in, in federal courts and essentially in state courts called Dalbert.
- And a lot of times federal courts are not very sensitive to people's needs and people's conflicts.
- Just this week, the court had to say, no, you cannot bar from federal agencies, including federal court lawyers who represented Hillary Clinton.
- In a recent Stanford University study, researchers found that questions about federal court cases resulted in an extremely high error rate.
Examples
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The woman filed the lawsuit in federal court in Denver on Wednesday against head coach Mike MacIntyre.
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Be advised that under federal court ruling, your conversation can be recorded.
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We got a judge in the Federal Court that can put a stop to this.
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I just wanted to say that my father was a federal court judge, so I think I know how it feels.
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And so then it took time for the federal courts to get their case together.
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And these questions remain and are being decided by, as I said, state and federal courts as we go forward.
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So I thought, and instead the federal court ordered the DNA testing.
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The Federal Court of Miami is now in session.
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Before we could launch it, he refiled in federal court on that same claim.
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A settlement notice was filed in federal court in Waco, Texas, on Thursday.
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Synonyms
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A place where a judge hears and decides legal cases
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A place where judges decide legal cases and apply the law
How Central
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'federal' (connected to the national/main government) modifies 'court' (a forum where judges decide cases), so a learner who knows both words can infer a court established by the federal government. This modifier+noun pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common (e.g. Spanish 'tribunal federal'), making the phrase immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Federal court comes from the idea of a court set up by the government of the whole country: federal means 'of the whole country' and court is a place where judges decide cases. So a federal court handles 'national' or 'federal' laws and disputes that affect the whole country rather than one state.