A fork of Rural Dictionary
Plural of federal court. Courts of the federal government notably willing to terrorize defendents who are being prosecuted for income tax evasion.
The federal courts rarely have any sense of justice.
The official name of the court building at Kent and Wellington Streets in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Sometimes it is colloquially and erroneously called "The Supreme Court Building" (even by experienced journalists) because it houses the Supreme Court of Canada. But it is officially called the "Supreme Court and Federal Courts Building" because the Federal Court of Appeal and the Federal Court also both regularly sit in their own courtrooms within the building.
I'm going to the Supreme Court and Federal Courts Building to watch a Federal Court of Appeal hearing.