How to Use plaintiff in a Sentence

plaintiff

noun
  • The abuse went on for about a year, the plaintiff said.
    Josh Cain, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The panel gave the plaintiffs a week to seek relief from the Supreme Court.
    Adam Liptak, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Kian Tanner, one of the 16 youth plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said in a statement.
    WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Both plaintiffs are residents of Benton and used to sing in the church’s youth choir.
    Frank E. Lockwood, arkansasonline.com, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The matter will be settled in court, but the judge found that the plaintiffs argued this well enough for the case to go forward.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 30 May 2023
  • If the plaintiff does not appear, the judge or magistrate may dismiss the case.
    Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Deuel Ross, a lawyer for the plaintiffs who argued the case before the court, told me Marshall had already cost the state enough.
    Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 9 June 2023
  • The Queen of Disco's husband, Bruce Sudano, is cited as the lead plaintiff in the suit, per the filing.
    Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Cushing was the lead plaintiff named in the ADA lawsuit that Cote has continued to press.
    Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • The case has dragged on for almost three decades, and has come to include more than five thousand plaintiffs.
    Emma Green, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The plaintiff later got permission to amend the suit with his real name.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Other plaintiffs in the lawsuit did not live to see the settlement.
    Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Taylor, the attorney, said the measures were too late to save his plaintiffs.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Chuck Michel, an attorney for the plaintiffs who sued the state to block the measure, praised Carney’s ruling.
    Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The suit alleges that the plaintiff’s friend walked over looking for her and at that point, Bishop stopped touching her.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The lawsuit did not name the plaintiffs, who were identified with initials.
    Emilia David, The Verge, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Although the teen isn’t fully named in the lawsuit, her mother confirmed that her daughter Olivia O’Dea is the lead plaintiff in the case.
    Holly Yan, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
  • By late March, the plaintiffs’ lawyers had launched a second offensive in Georgia.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 17 May 2023
  • De Niro said while being questioned by the plaintiff’s counsel.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The suit was dismissed with prejudice on the plaintiff’s request, meaning that the lawsuit cannot be filed again.
    Pat Saperstein, Variety, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Under the court’s rules, the lawyers who represented the homeless plaintiffs have 30 days to file a response to the appeal in City of Grants Pass vs. Johnson.
    David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • He’s also now joined as a plaintiff by Troy Powers, who claims to have co-written the earlier song.
    Bill Donahue, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The plaintiff, Jennifer McBride, apparently knew the father of one of the suspects in the dognapping case.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Of that sum, plaintiffs attorneys took home more than $13 million.
    Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Shannon Liss-Riordan, the plaintiff’s lawyer in the Marriott case, said the verdict was the first on the issue in California.
    Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
  • The lawsuit brought by Silverman and her fellow plaintiffs against Meta tracks the Authors Guild case closely.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The plaintiffs, ages 5 to 22, argued that even in the face of this global issue, small-scale actions from state governments matter.
    WIRED, 1 July 2023
  • The plaintiffs’ lawyer, Ron Zambrano, said the plaintiffs believe Lizzo was aware of their complaints about Quigley.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Justices don’t have to explain recusal decisions, but the fact that a plaintiff in the case, John Eastman, clerked for Justice Thomas in the mid-1990s could be a reason.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Legal experts say that if plaintiffs win, the case could be used to bolster climate change efforts in other states.
    Solcyre Burga, Time, 11 June 2023

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