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Recent Examples of appellantRunning Scared Another prominent and seemingly novel theme in Coca-Cola’s appellant brief is its allegation that the IRS selectively targeted supply points that had no recourse to mutual agreement procedures under a treaty.—Ryan Finley, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025 The plaintiffs in the Canna Provisions case argued in their appellant briefs to the First Circuit that this is no longer the case.—Zack Huffman, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024 However, developer representatives and the city’s outside counsel on housing issues, Barbara Kautz, said the appellants did not appear to have met the denial standards required under state law.—Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025 In January 2008, appellant Citizens United, a nonprofit corporation, released a documentary (hereinafter Hillary) critical of then-Senator Hillary Clinton, a candidate for her party’s Presidential nomination.—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 24 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for appellant
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petitioner
Noun
Lawyer Eric Baxter, who is representing the petitioners in the case, was skeptical that such a ruling would lead to countless lawsuits.
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BrieAnna J. Frank,
USA Today,
3 June 2025
Noteworthy is that all but two of Harvard’s Ivy League peers — Cornell University and Columbia University — were included in the group of petitioners.
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