In 2007, a federal judge confirmed that Ásatrú adherents in US prisons have the right to possess a Thor ’ s Hammer pendant.

* 1993 – A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.

The federal Brazilian judge Carlos Alberto Simões de Tomaz, of the Minas Gerais judiciary section, ordered the ban in October 2007 because, according to him, the games " bring imminent stimulus to the subversion of the social order, attempting against the democratic and rightful state and against the public safety ".

* 1933 – U. S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.

As of March 21, 2009 a federal judge says members of the church in Ashland can import, distribute and brew ayahuasca.

In 2010, US federal prosecutors asked a judge to help them stop Jonathan Lee Riches from filing any more lawsuits, arguing that his frequent filings were frivolous.

In June 2004, the United States Department of Agriculture, with the advisement of a federal district judge from Beaumont, Texas, classified batter-coated French fries as a vegetable under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

He later served as a federal judge in Pennsylvania.

Only a few years into his service as a federal judge, Hopkinson died in Philadelphia at the age of 53 from a sudden epileptic seizure.

He was the father of Joseph Hopkinson, who was a member of the United States House of Representatives and also became a federal judge.

If an application is denied by one judge of the FISC, the federal government is not allowed to make the same application to a different judge of the court, but must appeal to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review.

However, since the Civil War Era, the national courts often interpret the federal government as the final judge of its own powers under dual federalism.

James Dobson, a prominent conservative spokesman, said the Judeo-Christian tradition includes the right to display the following documents in Kentucky schools, after they were banned by a federal judge in May 2000 as " conveying a very specific governmental endorsement of religion ":

Kenesaw Mountain Landis (; November 20, 1866 – November 25, 1944 ) was an American jurist who served as a federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and as the first Commissioner of Baseball from 1920 until his death.

President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Landis a federal judge in 1905.

In March 1893, President Grover Cleveland appointed federal judge Walter Q. Gresham as his Secretary of State, and Gresham hired Landis as his personal secretary.

Van Ingen's mural, The Divine Law, which was on display in Landis's courtroom while he was a federal judge.

According to Pietrusza, " much of the nation could hardly believe a federal judge had finally cracked down on a trust — and cracked down hard ".

* 1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives " Unabomber " Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.

* 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.

* 1998 – A US federal judge ordered 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1. 03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing.

However on July 26, 2012 Jonathan Vilma and seven witnesses from the Saints testified in front of a federal judge in New Orleans that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell got his facts wrong in the bounty scandal.

The nine-story building, built in 1977, was named for a federal judge and housed fourteen federal agencies including the DEA, ATF, Social Security Administration, and recruiting offices for the Army and Marine Corps.

Litigants who choose to assert federal claims in a state court go into that court subject to its rules of procedure.

A similar canon applies to those who press state claims in federal tribunals, e.g., in diversity cases.

Her husband, who was sentenced to 15 years in the federal prison at McNeil Island last April for robbery of the Hillsdale branch of Multnomah Bank, also was charged with the store holdup.

A federal grand jury called 10 witnesses yesterday in an investigation of the affairs of Ben Stein, 47, who collected big fees as a `` labor consultant '' and operator of a janitors' service.

In the federal government, the executive branch, led by the president, controls the federal executive departments, which are led by secretaries who are members of the United States Cabinet.

In 2010, Lamo became embroiled in the WikiLeaks scandal involving Bradley Manning, who was arrested after Lamo reported to federal authorities that Manning had leaked hundreds of thousands of sensitive U. S. government documents .< ref >

As the movement began to gain popularity, the Partisans gained strength from Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs, Slovenes, and Macedonians who believed in a unified, but federal, Yugoslav state.

This explanation did not satisfy cultural nationalists, who demanded that the federal cabinet overturn the decision and mandate a minimum of 35 % Canadian content.

His reputation underwent a renaissance during the Ronald Reagan Administration, but the ultimate assessment of his presidency is still divided between those who approve of his reduction of the size of government programs and those who believe the federal government should be more involved in regulating and controlling the economy.

The Constitution stipulated that Australia was a constitutional monarchy, where the Head of State is the British ( or, since 1942, Australian ) monarch, who is represented at the federal level by a Governor-General, and at the state level by six Governors, one for each state.

The only types of records that are disclosed as being in the system are those of " federal prisoners who are in custody pending criminal proceedings.

* 2005 – Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U. S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.

His order prohibits the federal government from interfering with and prosecuting church members who follow a list of regulations set out in his order.

In Europe, " federalist " is sometimes used to describe those who favor a common federal government, with distributed power at regional, national and supranational levels.

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.

Under the False Claims Act, the Department of Justice is authorized to pay rewards to those who report fraud against the federal government in an amount of between 15 and 30 percent of what it recovers based upon the whistleblower's report.

The Act's applicability in prosecuting doctors who prescribe narcotics to addicts was successfully challenged in Linder v. United States in 1925, as Justice McReynolds ruled that the federal government has no power to regulate medical practice.

The Constitution defines impeachment at the federal level and limits impeachment to " The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States " who may be impeached and removed only for " treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors ".

In federal court, and in Arizona, the burden is placed on the defendant, who must prove insanity by clear and convincing evidence.

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.

His typefaces were greatly admired by Benjamin Franklin, a printer and fellow member of the Royal Society of Arts, who took the designs back to the newly-created United States, where they were adopted for most federal government publishing.