What is the difference between a state case and a federal case?
Preston, of course, was a federal case, while this is a state case.
We have here a state case, not a federal one; and the prosecutor is a state official.
Meanwhile, an official with the Mexican attorney general's office in Tamaulipas insisted that the kidnapping was a state case.
Regardless of how the Court would like eavesdropping legislation to read, our function ends in a state case with the determination of these questions.
When a state case is removed to federal court only to be sent back to state court, the time and resources incurred in the detour are a toll on the judicial system and waste parties' resources.
Next Monday, the court will hear another F.D.A. pre-emption case, on whether a state case can be based on the claim that a drug maker committed fraud by misrepresenting or withholding information from the agency during the approval process.
Condemning a man to death is not something taken lightly in New York; it has been more than 50 years since a federal defendant was executed in the state, and nearly as long since a state case led to an execution.
Some quarters of black (and white) America demanded, or at least hoped for, some type of Presidential intervention — even though, under the law, there was no clear route into a state case for Obama.
Some quarters of black (and white) America demanded, or at least hoped for, some type of Presidential intervention even though, under the law, there was no clear route into a state case for Obama.
This kind of case would normally be a state case".
