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Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1968

After a lengthy and provocative trial that led to explosive media headlines, Judge John J. Sirica of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on August 27, 1970, that illegal political pressure had been applied to secure the bridge's placement over the Three Sisters.


19th Tennessee Infantry

The attack on the Federal camp opened at 5:00 A.M., but Col. George Maney's battalion, the 19th Tennessee, and General Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry were sent to scout the Confederate rear in case Buell attempted a landing there.

2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion

Brigham McCown, the former head for the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, called for the creation of a national commission to examine the problems surrounding high-pressure fuel pipelines that have been built in residential areas.

2011 Rutgers Tuition Protests

Rich Williams, an advocate of the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group, stated that grants are the principal method in which the federal government can assist students in battling rising college tuition costs.

A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights

At one stop on the book tour associated with the publication and release of the book at the David A. Clarke School of Law of the University of the District of Columbia, Jackson's message was perceived as saying that American history can be studied as an analysis of race, but that economics and the tension between states’ rights and federal rights are the true basis of a domestic history revolving around pursuit of economic development, political power, and personal freedom.

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program, a United States federal government program under the purview of the National Park Service

Alan Unwin

He attended a rally for the Reform Party in May 1997, in which party leader Preston Manning called for federal prisoners to be stripped of their voting rights (Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 16 May 1997).

Anton Schmid

On May 8, 2000, by invitation of German Federal Minister of Defence Rudolf Scharping, President Heinz Fischer attended the barracks-appellation as President of the National Council of Austria in Rendsburg.

Avi Dichter

In Matar v. Dichter, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a federal class action lawsuit against Dichter on behalf of the Palestinians killed or injured in a 2002 "targeted killing" air strike in Gaza.

Buddy Dyer

The group Orlando Food Not Bombs sued Dyer and the city of Orlando over the ordinance in federal court.

Butcher of the Balkans

Slobodan Milošević (1941–2006), the former president of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Cecilia Thackaberry

Federal troops invaded Biafra that year and the Presentation community moved from Port Harcourt to Owerri.

Cincinnati Park Board

The board receives its funding from the city, state and federal grants, as well as private endowments.

Cut, Cap and Balance Act

The provisions of the bill included a cut in the total amount of federal government spending, a cap on the level of future spending as a percentage of GDP, and, on the condition that Congress pass certain changes to the U.S. Constitution, an increase in the national debt ceiling to allow the federal government to continue to service its debts.

Doe v. 2themart.com Inc.

140 F. Supp. 2d 1088 (2001), was a federal case decided by United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, on the issue of an individual’s First Amendment right to speak anonymously on the Internet and a private party’s right to disclose the identity of the anonymous Internet user by enforcing a civil subpoena.

DPPA

Driver's Privacy Protection Act, a 1994 federal U.S. law concerning privacy of DMV information

Emilio Alvarez

Emilio Álvarez Icaza, president of the Human Rights Commission of the Mexican Federal District

Fall Creek Massacre

Early sources close to the case, such as the Federal Indian agent John Johnston, described them as a mixed band of Seneca and Shawnee, or Mingo, from Logan, Ohio, named for the chief.

Federal Government Girls College Owerri

Federal Government Girls College is one of the secondary schools in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria.

Fiona Nash

Between 1999 and 2004, she worked as staff member for National Party federal ministers, Mark Vaile, Larry Anthony, and De-Anne Kelly before her election to the Senate.

FK Teteks

They won the Macedonian Republic League on four occasions and along with Vardar, was the only other Macedonian club to have won the Federal EasternYugoslav Second League containing only the teams from 3 federal Republics:Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia Kosovo and Voivodinship.

Grand juries in the United States

Scott Turow's second novel The Burden of Proof deals extensively with the workings and shortcomings of the Federal Grand Jury system in a fictional midwestern state.

Gun laws in the United States by state

NFA weapons are weapons that are heavily restricted at a federal level by the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986.

Hamilton Lamb

His son, Tony Lamb, would also go into politics, representing the federal seats of La Trobe (1972–1975) and Streeton (1984–1990) for the Australian Labor Party.

Health insurance premium index

In Switzerland the Health insurance premium index is compiled by the Federal Social Insurance Office (for the basic health insurance) and by the Federal Statistical Office (for the field of supplementary insurances).

Hendrick I. Lott House

Although Hendrick added Federal-style dormer windows, the gambrel roof with graceful spring eaves is typical of the Dutch Colonial architectureal style.

Herbert A. Shepard

In management consulting, Herb's clients included Bell-Northern Research, Syncrude, Esso, TRW, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Union Carbide, USAID and most of the departments of the federal governments of the U.S.A. and Canada.

Herbert B. Maxson

He moved to Nevada in 1888, where he was elected county surveyor of Washoe County and was later appointed to the federal deputy surveyor post.

Hugh Shaw

Hugh Murray Shaw (1876–1934), farmer, rancher and Canadian federal politician

James Rosenbaum

He is most well known for his study of the Gautreaux Project the Chicago housing desegregation program which led to the federal Moving to Opportunity program, and for his work on improving vocational education programs.

Jan Brown

Due to her success in badgering Canadian Heritage Minister Michel Dupuy, she was promoted to critic for Human Resources Development Canada, one of the largest ministries in the federal government.

Joseph von Radowitz

In 1836, Radowitz went as Prussian military plenipotentiary to the federal diet at Frankfurt, and in 1842 was appointed envoy to the courts of Karlsruhe, Darmstadt and Nassau.

Jüdenberg

Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B 107 between Coswig and Bad Düben runs right through the community.

Lorne Calvert

Federal New Democratic Party spokesman Brad Lavigne later told reporters that the party had asked Calvert to consider standing as a candidate in the 2008 federal election.

Marcelo Ebrard

The city's chief of police, Marcelo Ebrard, and the Federal Secretary of Public Safety, Ramón Huerta, were both accused of not organizing a timely rescue effort when three undercover federal police officers were lynched by a mob in one of the capital's most impoverished suburbs in Tláhuac on November 23, 2004.

Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication

MCN is the Victorian node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) and is a collaborative initiative between federal and state governments, CSIRO, Monash University, The University of Melbourne, Swinburne University of Technology, La Trobe University, Deakin University and RMIT University.

Mobile Public Library

The Local History and Genealogy Division includes works by local authors, Mobile histories, periodicals, Mobile newspapers on microfilm from 1819 to the present, city directories from 1837 onward, federal census records for most of the Southeastern United States, and the Mobile Historic Development Commission's survey of historic architecture in Mobile with 10,000 images stored and indexed on CD-ROM.

Nancy Oestreich Lurie

Between 1954 and 1963, Lurie worked frequently as a researcher and expert witness for tribal petitioners in cases brought before the U. S. Indian Claims Commission, including Lower Kutenai (Ktunaxa), Lower Kalispe l(Kalispel), Quileute, Sac and Fox Nation, Winnebago (aka Ho-Chunk), Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Eastern Potawatomi; after 1963 she appeared as an expert witness in regard to the Wisconsin Chippewa and Menominee in federal courts.

New states of Germany

The Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003 includes plans for the extension of the A14 from Magdeburg to Schwerin and construction of the A72 from Chemnitz to Leipzig.

NTEU

National Treasury Employees Union, a trade union representing employees of the U.S. federal government

Pledge drive

Although the federal government of the United States, primarily through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and corporate underwriting provide some money for public broadcasting organizations like National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), they are largely dependent on program fees paid by their member stations.

Raymond Brescia

From 1995 to 1996, he clerked for Constance Baker Motley who was then a federal judge sitting in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Robert Bockstael

After re-election in 1980 federal election, he was defeated in the 1984 federal election by Léo Duguay of the Progressive Conservatives and left federal politics after that.

Saint John harbour

Port of Saint John, the federal agency which administers the harbour infrastructure

Samarsky

Samara Oblast (Samarskaya oblast), a federal subject of Russia

Shrimp-Turtle Case

The Earth Island Institute filed a lawsuit against US Secretary of State Warren Christopher in federal court.

Sing, Baby, Sing

When she insists that he represent her, he takes her to Mr. Brewster (Paul Stanton), president of the Federal Broadcasting Company, and Joan auditions, but Brewster refuses to hire her because she is not of the upper class.

State Marriage Defense Act

It was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Representative Randy Weber, a Texas Republican, on January 9, 2014, who presented it as an attempt to clarify federal government's implementation of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor in June 2013.

Utah Constitutional Amendment 3

On December 20, 2013, federal judge Robert J. Shelby of the U.S. District Court for Utah struck down Amendment 3 as unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution.

Vanessa Beeman

She studied prehistory at Manchester and Liverpool, and for a Post Graduate Diploma in Education in Wales before teaching at a school in Truro, going on to a post with the Federal Department of Antiquities in Nigeria, and afterwards to teach at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria.

Wounded Knee incident

Afterward AIM leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means were indicted on charges related to the events, but their 1974 case was dismissed by the federal court for prosecutorial misconduct, a decision upheld on appeal.


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