Examples of litigant in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Yet in private, business and political life, Trump is a serial and often frivolous litigant and regards the court system as a way to delay accountability as much as an enforcement mechanism for the law. — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 10 Nov. 2021 Cases like these do not really affect anyone other than the litigant. — Patricia Fersch, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021 The first celebrated white litigant against an affirmative-action program was Marco DeFunis, who had been turned down by the University of Washington’s law school. — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021 That immediately prompted Robert Davis, a serial litigant who is also a member of this lawsuit, to ask Parker to hold Wood in contempt of court. — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2021 Robert Davis, a serial litigant in Detroit who sued to become a part of this lawsuit, notified Parker about Wood's post and asked her to put him in jail for violating the rules. — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 17 July 2021 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 State officials first will focus on granting a single license to a Black farmer who meets certain provisions, including being a Pigford litigant. — Dara Kam, sun-sentinel.com, 22 June 2021 The courts could also stick the burden of proof on the plaintiffs, on the theory that asking a litigant to prove a negative is at least a little less unrealistic than asking one to disprove a negative. — Dan Mclaughlin, National Review, 21 June 2021

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