Timeline for What was the reference to 'federal case' in the movie Air Force One
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| Mar 14, 2023 at 23:44 | history | edited | ohwilleke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 14, 2023 at 23:11 | comment | added | ohwilleke | @bdb484 Updated with a source of the popularization of the phrase which is enhanced by the context of the legal background. | |
| Mar 14, 2023 at 23:10 | history | edited | ohwilleke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 14, 2023 at 23:04 | history | edited | ohwilleke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 11, 2023 at 4:28 | comment | added | bdb484 | @user6726 This feels a bit like folk etymology. Do you have a source? | |
| Feb 11, 2023 at 1:48 | comment | added | user6726 | Up to 1945 it was used literally, in reference to filing a federal legal case. Over the next 5-10 years it took on the figurative meaning. E.g. 1918 "We then intended to make a Federal case against Delano , but we found that the statute of limitations had run by some three months , so that we were barred". | |
| Feb 11, 2023 at 1:07 | history | answered | ohwilleke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |