How to Use en banc in a Sentence

en banc

adverb or adjective
  • Yost asked the full Sixth Circuit to take up the case en banc.
    USA TODAY, 27 May 2020
  • But the 5th Circuit took the case en banc, which is where all the judges on the court hear a case.
    Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 15 Dec. 2023
  • But then the Ninth Circuit judges voted to hold a new appeal en banc.
    Ben Sisario, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2019
  • An en banc hearing is a kind of appeal in which a much larger group of judges hears a case.
    Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 22 Oct. 2019
  • With an en banc review, a larger group of 9th Circuit judges rehears the case.
    Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2020
  • In May 2017, Ninth Circuit judges announced that the case would be reheard in front of the entire court in an en banc hearing.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2018
  • But the full 5th Circuit, acting on an appeal from Texas, reheard the case in front of all 17 judges in an en banc review.
    Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
  • But a full en banc panel of 11 judges from the 9th Circuit took up the appeal last year, hearing arguments in the case last June.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2024
  • The granting of an en banc review would add months, if not longer, to the litigation timeline.
    Michael McCann, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The en banc panel has since sent the case back to the lower District Court to be relitigated there.
    Kevin Rectorstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The appeals court later denied Musk's request for an en banc rehearing in front of all the court's judges.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Attorneys for Croghan have not made any efforts for an en banc re-hearing or an appeal to the Supreme Court.
    Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 1 Jan. 2018
  • But two of those judges have senior status, which excluded them from the en banc hearing.
    Michael Wines, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Then, last year, the Supreme Court vacated the en banc panel’s decision.
    Kevin Rectorstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • For one, the government could seek a rehearing en banc to have the case heard, not just by the three-judge panel, but by all of the active judges on the Fourth Circuit.
    Karma Allen, ABC News, 10 Feb. 2020
  • His lawyers have now asked an 11-judge en banc appellate panel to consider the case.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Tuesday’s arguments are scheduled to be argued en banc, in front of all nine judges.
    Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Klayman asked the appeals court to re-hear the case with all of the District of Columbia appellate judges, in what’s known as an en banc appeal.
    Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2018
  • In Tingley’s case, a majority of the active judges voted against the en banc review.
    Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The appeals court seldom grants so-called en banc rehearings of cases, but can if a majority of the judges agree to do so.
    David Lauter, latimes.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The defense may now, however, ask for an en banc review, which, if granted, would see a larger group of 5th Circuit judges hear the case.
    Shera Avi-Yonah, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Circuit judges who take senior status forfeit the right to hear cases en banc, whereby all of the judges on the court assemble to resolve the case.
    Josh Blackman, National Review, 18 Dec. 2017
  • In November 2019, the Fifth Circuit reheard the case before the entire panel, a process known as an en banc review.
    Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 15 June 2023
  • The ruling by the en banc court (i.e., consideration by all ten active Circuit judges who were not recused from the case) was 8–2.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Tuesday's ruling came after an en banc hearing before the full 16 court.
    Peter Greene, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • The challengers asked a larger, en banc panel to overturn that decision.
    Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The Justice Department did not take a position on the request for initial review by a full, en banc court.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Tesla or the union could still ask for an en banc review with all the court's judges, though the unanimous ruling suggests that would be an uphill battle.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Her petition to have the case reheard by an en banc panel was denied, leaving the Supreme Court as her final option.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Cole’s case returned to the Fifth Circuit, where the judges heard it en banc—meaning with its entire membership instead of the usual three-judge panel.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2019

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