Recent Examples on the WebIndeed, the appeal comes to us with no appellee (a respondent in an appellate case) at all.—Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024 But the commission held off after an objection from an attorney representing the appellee in the case.—Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 29 May 2023 The plaintiff-appellant (Sempowich) was represented by the Noble Law Firm and the defendant-appellee (Tactile Systems) was represented by Stinson LLP.—Eric Bachman, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021 In the grandiloquent language of the law, the Most Junior Junior Assistant had stated that the appellant’s case was so utterly frivolous, so completely lacking in merit, that there was no need for the appellee to respond.—New York Times, 14 July 2021 According to an appellee's brief filed in 2013, LeCroy's attorneys hired a psychiatrist to evaluate LeCroy.—Jennifer Henderson and Steve Almasy, CNN, 22 Sep. 2020 What the appellees and dissent seek is an unprecedented expansion of judicial power.—WSJ, 27 June 2019
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