"federal case" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "In the United States of America, courts with federal jurisdiction generally are for much more serious offenses than those whose cases are heard by local courts.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "federal cases",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "federal case (plural federal cases)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "So I didn't put the toilet seat down — you don't have to make a federal case out of it."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Zachary Klaas, Time Tourists, page 122",
          "text": "You think I'm some kind of codependent ditz overwhelmed by reality outside of Catholic school, and I'm not supposed to make a federal case out of it?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any over-exaggerated ordeal."
      ],
      "id": "en-federal_case-en-noun-zOOOZmKE",
      "links": [
        [
          "over-",
          "over-"
        ],
        [
          "exaggerate",
          "exaggerate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Any over-exaggerated ordeal."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "mountain out of a molehill"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "something over-exaggerated",
          "word": "big deal"
        },
        {
          "sense": "something over-exaggerated",
          "word": "big thing"
        },
        {
          "sense": "something over-exaggerated",
          "word": "production"
        },
        {
          "sense": "something over-exaggerated",
          "word": "meal"
        },
        {
          "sense": "something over-exaggerated",
          "word": "song and dance"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "federal case"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "In the United States of America, courts with federal jurisdiction generally are for much more serious offenses than those whose cases are heard by local courts.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "federal cases",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "federal case (plural federal cases)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "mountain out of a molehill"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "So I didn't put the toilet seat down — you don't have to make a federal case out of it."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Zachary Klaas, Time Tourists, page 122",
          "text": "You think I'm some kind of codependent ditz overwhelmed by reality outside of Catholic school, and I'm not supposed to make a federal case out of it?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any over-exaggerated ordeal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "over-",
          "over-"
        ],
        [
          "exaggerate",
          "exaggerate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Any over-exaggerated ordeal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "something over-exaggerated",
      "word": "big deal"
    },
    {
      "sense": "something over-exaggerated",
      "word": "big thing"
    },
    {
      "sense": "something over-exaggerated",
      "word": "production"
    },
    {
      "sense": "something over-exaggerated",
      "word": "meal"
    },
    {
      "sense": "something over-exaggerated",
      "word": "song and dance"
    }
  ],
  "word": "federal case"
}