How to Use litigant in a Sentence

litigant

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  • The timing of Twitter’s icon change to the Doge suggests that Musk is trolling the litigants.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 3 Apr. 2023
  • That means that the courts of appeals are the courts of last resort for thousands of litigants each year.
    — Eric N. Waltenburg, Washington Post, 14 June 2018
  • But its chief litigant is vowing to appeal up to the Supreme Court.
    — Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Most all courts have a large shelf to separate the litigants from the judge keeping them about four feet away from the bench.
    — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2018
  • This won’t be the last time that the court is tempted by a litigant’s narrative.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 July 2022
  • Hers was a vote that litigants had to have, but could never take for granted.
    — Fred Barbash, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The case on Tuesday before the high court didn’t involve the Trump campaign as a litigant.
    — Brent Kendall, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Anyone who has worked around the courts knows there’s no other way to handle a litigant in the throes of delusion.
    — New York Times, 14 July 2021
  • For decades, the pearl case has dragged on in court, as litigants have tried to finally force a sale and get their money back.
    — Michael Lapointe, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
  • The request came without prompting from any of the litigants.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Supreme Court opinions, however, are not just written for the litigants but for the ages.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 July 2024
  • But judges and litigants are effective in weeding out those who have heard of the case before they are picked for the jury.
    — Rafael Olmeda, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Most lawsuits start in circuit court, but litigants can ask the Supreme Court to take a case directly.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2019
  • One suspects the presence of a lawyer’s red pen, striking out the names of potential litigants.
    — Charles C. Mann, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
  • But Battle is a prolific litigant, often from behind bars and rarely with the help of a lawyer.
    — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The justices, after all, set their own agenda by picking from the broad menu of cases that litigants send their way.
    — Aziz Huq, Foreign Affairs, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The litigants are after around $9 billion in damages, the Guardian reports.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • So long as litigants submit all the paperwork, courts must agree to hear their cases.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • And the appearance of fairness, the sense that litigants have a fair chance in court, is key to public confidence in the legal system.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 2 Nov. 2019
  • These briefs can give judges different perspectives on a case than the litigants’ briefs do.
    — Derek H. Kiernan-Johnson, The Conversation, 1 Feb. 2024
  • However, in some cases, litigants and their lawyers must make the effort to find their own interpreters and often the client must pay the cost.
    — Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • But not very much,’ evoked laughter, even from the potential litigant.
    — Anne M. Hamilton, courant.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • This is, to put it mildly, a fairly blunt comment for a Supreme Court justice to make about how litigants might see the court and its current lineup.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 May 2023
  • One of the primary litigants opposing Khosla in that case happens to be Massara, who’s a surfer.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2018
  • The lawsuit, first filed on Sept. 6, started out on rocky footing when its initial litigant, an 84-year-old woman from New Milford, and one of its lawyers pulled out from the case.
    — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Lawyers, litigants, and the justices themselves appear to have sought to avoid such ambiguous outcomes this term.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2017
  • The Dominion case was like a fullback, blowing a hole through Fox’s defense that future litigants can run through.
    — Daniel Novack, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2023
  • One previous litigant told me that her divorce allowed her to start over.
    — Kim Bellware, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Just days later, litigants around the country are already taking aim at some rules with new motions and filings.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
  • Bell is an experienced litigant and has drawn criticisms for his aggressive protection of the WIN Passage.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 14 Aug. 2024

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