How to Use litigant in a Sentence

litigant

noun

• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• No doubt a determined litigant would be able to use numbers that aren’t test scores to make a case that race is still being used as a plus factor in admissions.
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2022
• At the same time, the litigants need to be confident that the mediator is an agreeable and effective choice for both parties.
  — Todd Longwell, Variety, 19 Apr. 2023
• An intervener, while not a direct litigant, is granted certain rights by a court to comment or act in a case.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2018
• Justices tend to decide in favor of the litigant with the most amicus briefs on its side when deciding cases.
  — Paul M. Collins, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2020
• A few participants—the judge, the litigants, the defendant—are sitting in the courtroom, but everyone else is watching on a screen.
  — Michael Waters, Wired, 21 May 2020
• The Spokane and Coeur d’Alene tribes are also among the litigants that agreed to continue negotiating.
  — oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024