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litigation

noun

Definition of litigation

as in lawsuit

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Recent Examples of litigation Tennessee Department of Correction spokesperson Dorinda Carter declined to comment, citing pending litigation. — Jack Brook, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2026 The False Claims Act complaint seeks civil penalties, treble damages, litigation costs, and a statutory whistleblower award. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 10 Nov. 2026 Were such a failure to occur in the private sector, litigation would surely have followed. — Aaron Glantz, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Nov. 2026 The newest filing is part of litigation brought by Public Goods Practice over the government's handling of borrowers enrolled in SAVE. — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2026 See All Example Sentences for litigation

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The department also filed a motion in support of a separate lawsuit filed in May that argues California violates national voting laws by failing to sufficiently remove ineligible voters from its rolls.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
The lawsuit alleged that the facility violated the state's minimum wage and forced labor laws by paying detainees $1 a day to work at the facility, sometimes under threat of solitary confinement.

— Christa Swanson, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of lawsuit

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The seizure was part of criminal proceedings against former National Development Minister Miklós Sesztak, who served under Orban.

— Justin Spike, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2026
In Overtown, dozens of shareholders in the Town Park Village cooperative—which opened in the 1970s—have also faced eviction proceedings decades later.

— Larry Seward, CBS News, 13 Nov. 2026

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The three parties are defendants in a suit brought by Timothy Reif, a descendant of Fritz Grünbaum, a Jewish performer and collector killed in a Nazi camp in 1941.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 2 Nov. 2026
Prices are moderate, with three shirts retailing for $199 and most suits selling for $698.

— Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2026

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Today, the company can use AI to generate high-quality, photorealistic images mimicking those same products in action in various customer environments with a simple prompt, in minutes.

— S. Sorrina Beecher, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2026
But neither the local church nor the Holy See took concrete action until one of the victims and a journalist, Pedro Salinas and Paola Ugaz, wrote a book in 2015.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Nov. 2026

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