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countersuit

n. (context legal English) A lawsuit filed against a party that has filed a suit against one.

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countersuit

n. a suit brought against someone who has sued you

Usage examples of "countersuit".

I've already begun preparing a countersuit for harassment and slander.

She can try a countersuit against me personally, but if she moves against the Bureau, we can ask for a seratori hearing, a personal confrontation.

However, there will be no countersuit, neither of you nor of the university.

Banyon that they intend to file a countersuit to his adoption petition to sue for custody of their, ah, 'grandson' as well.

The metanatricide was still being played out in the form of surgical strikes and decapitation coups, commando raids and counterraids on various corporate compounds and headquarters, combined with legal actions and PR of all sorts including a number of suits and countersuits finally introduced to the World Court, which Nadia considered encouraging.

The metanatricide was still being played out in the form of surgical strikes and decapitation coups, commando raids and counterraids on various corporate compounds and headquarters, combined with legal actions and PR of all sorts—including a number of suits and countersuits finally introduced to the World Court, which Nadia considered encouraging.

The metanatricide was still being played out in the form of surgical strikes and decapitation coups, commando raids and counterraids on various corporate compounds and headquarters, combined with legal actions and PR of all sorts— including a number of suits and countersuits finally introduced to the World Court, which Nadia considered encouraging.

All sane reasoning would lead me to think that, if that first soldier hadn't been hit, this could all have ended peacefully at the jailhouse with a lot of lawyers arguing, charges brought, countersuits filed.

Ariel told them to go ahead and file, that she thought it likely that, once it was brought to the attention of certain government departments what they were doing, they could lose their licenses rather than risk countersuits by Aurorans.

A whole bundle of multithreaded countersuits are dragging at her attention, in a counterattack alleging that the light blip is in violation of copyright, patent, and trade secrecy laws by discussing the interloper's intentions.

Everywhere he went, he heard talk about torts, writs, briefs, suits, countersuits, motions for continuation, appeals, plea bargaining, and the latest tax shelters.