The grand jury took a swipe at the State Welfare Department's handling of federal funds granted for child welfare services in foster homes.

On November 15, 2007, attention was brought once again to Barry Bonds as he was indicted by a federal grand jury for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection to his testimony before the grand jury regarding the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative ( BALCO ), a San Francisco Bay area lab known to be involved in the distribution of steroids to professional athletes.

Like a grand jury, FISC is not an adversarial court: the federal government is the only party to its proceedings.

The existence of the grand coalition on federal level helped smaller parties ' electoral prospects in state elections.

As a result of that federal election, the grand coalition came to an end.

** Bill Clinton, Democrat, was impeached on December 19, 1998, by the House of Representatives on articles charging perjury ( specifically, lying to a federal grand jury ) by a 228 – 206 vote, and obstruction of justice by a 221 – 212 vote.

* 2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.

* 1989 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

On February 5, 2002, Lindh was indicted by a federal grand jury on ten charges:

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.

In March 1989, a federal grand jury indicted Milken on 98 counts of racketeering and fraud.

* 2002 – A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.

In the U. S., if the defendant is charged with a federal felony, he has the right to an indictment by a grand jury pursuant to the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.

Jurisprudential developments in the American law of perjury have revolved around the facilitation of " perjury prosecutions and thereby enhance the reliability of testimony before federal courts and grand juries.

* Barry Bonds has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly perjuring himself in testimony before a grand jury in 2003 as part of the BALCO steroid scandal, in which he denied using any performance-enhancing drugs.

On August 19, 2010, a federal grand jury at the U. S. District Court in Washington, D. C., indicted Clemens on six felony counts involving perjury, false statements and obstruction of Congress.

After Washington prosecutors showed " a renewed interest in the case in the final months of 2008 ," a federal grand jury was convened in January 2009 to hear evidence of Clemens ' possible perjury before Congress.

A federal grand jury in the Middle District of Pennsylvania handed down a 48-count indictment against former Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas Judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella.

and gave authorities the ability to share information gathered before a federal grand jury with other agencies.

Article I, Section 2, Clause 5 and Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution both authorize the House of Representatives to serve as a " grand jury " with the power to impeach high federal officials, including the President, for " treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

** A federal grand jury indicts Caspar Weinberger for his role in covering up the Iran – Contra affair.

* July 26 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer virus, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

That is, he did not claim in any of the four courts through which his case progressed that the jury charge had denied him any federal right.

U.S. Attorney Macon Weaver said the federal complaint, charged that the juror gave false information when asked about Ku Klux Klan membership during selection of jury.

" Nathan Dane, the primary author of the Northwest Ordinance, viewed this provision as a default mechanism in the event that federal or territorial statutes were silent about a particular matter ; he wrote that if " a statute makes an offence, and is silent as to the mode of trial, it shall be by jury, according to the course of the common law.

Rajat Gupta, who reached the pinnacle of corporate America as managing partner of McKinsey & Co. and director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ( GS ) and Procter & Gamble Co. ( PG ), was convicted by a federal jury of leaking inside information to hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam.

In 1989, after a five-week trial which began on August 28 in Charlotte, the jury found him guilty on all 24 counts, and Judge Robert Potter sentenced him to 45 years in federal prison and a $ 500, 000 fine.

* Federal Jury Instruction Resource Page Collecting model or pattern federal civil and criminal jury instructions for trial courts by jurisdiction ( where available ) and subject matter.

Approximately 150, 000 jury trials are conducted in state courts annually, and an additional 5, 000 jury trials are conducted in federal courts.

In the United States, every person accused of a crime punishable by incarceration for more than six months has a constitutional right to a trial by jury, which arises in federal court from Article Three of the United States Constitution, which states in part, " The Trial of all Crimes ... shall be by Jury ; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed.

But those who charged with a criminal offense, breach of contract or federal offence have a Constitutional right to a trial by jury.

The right to trial by jury in a civil case in federal court is addressed by the Seventh Amendment.

The Seventh Amendment does not guarantee or create any right to a jury trial ; rather, it preserves the right to jury trial in the federal courts that existed in 1791 at common law.

There is not a United States constitutional right under the Seventh Amendment to a jury trial in state courts, but in practice, almost every state except Louisiana, which has a civil law legal tradition, permits jury trials in civil cases in state courts on substantially the same basis that they are allowed under the Seventh Amendment in federal court.

State and federal legislation against racial discrimination in employment was called for yesterday in a report of a `` blue ribbon '' citizens committee on the aid to dependent children program.

In the area of `` community health services '', the President called for doubling the present 10 million dollar a year federal grants for nursing home construction.

The President has also called upon the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Secretary of Labor to coordinate their efforts `` in the development of a program of federal leadership to assist states and local communities in their efforts to cope with the problem.

* 2003 – The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo ( now called Behchoko ).

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

( In the USA this is called the federal funds rate ).

Canada Day () is the national day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act, 1867 ( today called the Constitution Act, 1867, in Canada ), which united three colonies into a single country called Canada within the British Empire.

** Cumberland Road, a historical road, also called the Great National Pike and the National Road, the first United States federal highway

The 2006 science fiction film Déjà Vu revolves around a US federal law enforcement officer using an instrument called Snowhite to view the past four and a half days of anywhere in the world ( limited radius as permissible by the program ) in order to solve a murder and a terrorist bomb attack on a ferry that was being boarded by about 500 citizens and military members.

It called for Eritrea and Ethiopia to be linked through a loose federal structure under the sovereignty of the Emperor.

Federal funds are the reserve balances ( also called federal reserve accounts ) that private banks keep at their local Federal Reserve Bank.

The federal government has certain express powers ( also called enumerated powers ) which are powers spelled out in the Constitution, including the right to levy taxes, declare war, and regulate interstate and foreign commerce.

The False Claims Act (, also called the " Lincoln Law ") is an American federal law that imposes liability on persons and companies ( typically federal contractors ) who defraud governmental programs.

The national roads in Germany are called Bundesstraßen ( federal roads ).

However, a gerrymander may also be used for purposes that some perceive as positive, such as in US federal voting district boundaries that produce a majority of constituents representative of African-American or other racial minorities ( these are thus called " majority-minority districts ").

Hefner called a press conference to allege that she had been driven to suicide by narcotics agents and federal officers.

In recent years, some have called for a dual state and federal regulatory system ( commonly referred to as the Optional federal charter ( OFC )) for insurance similar to the banking industry.

In the United States, insurance is regulated by the states under the McCarran-Ferguson Act, with " periodic proposals for federal intervention ", and a nonprofit coalition of state insurance agencies called the National Association of Insurance Commissioners works to harmonize the country's different laws and regulations.

'" These turned out to be unpopular, even among republicans, since they called for state governments to invalidate federal laws.

Kemp also partnered with the Blixseths in a failed anti-terrorism software venture called Blxware which was investigated for " conning " the federal government out of $ 20 million in contracts for software which fraudulently claimed to detect secret messages from Alqaeda in television broadcast signals.

However, low membership and voter support in Germany's western states continued to plague the party on the federal level until it formed an electoral alliance in July 2005 with the Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice ( WASG ), a leftist faction of dissident Social Democrats and trade unionists, with the merged list being called the Left Party.