(law) a party to a lawsuit

Usage examples of litigant.

In this respect, the decision in the Florida election case may be ranked as the single most corrupt decision in Supreme Court history, because it is the only one that I know of where the majority justices decided as they did because of the personal identity and political affiliation of the litigants.

This advantage was enhanced by the disposition of the Court, in litigation embracing the latter type of legislation, to shift the burden of proof from the litigant charging unconstitutionality to the State seeking enforcement.

State commissions, the Supreme Court has placed various obstacles in the path of the complaining litigant.

State offers a litigant the choice of two methods of judicial review, of which one is both appropriate and unrestricted, the mere fact that the other which the litigant elects is limited, does not amount to a denial of the constitutional right to a judicial review.

Among other benefits which the Court cites as not extending to foreign States as litigants include exemption from costs and from giving discovery.

Monsieur le Capitaine, may I trespass upon your generosity to beseech you to let me take these litigants to our room upstairs, and to leave us alone there for a half-hour?

The litigants were compelled to abide by the judgments, not merely because the decisions were always wise and creatively fair, but because the judges' race would, if its decisions were questioned as suspect, destroy itself.

He would have to go back to the top soon, because the litigants were required to present themselves to view for anyone interested.

Those towers may have been rebuilt several times, and later the litigants were confined to covered platforms on the upper sections, but for my purpose small hollow towers worked best.

For instance, I had the families bringing food to the litigants in the Chapter 9 Tower Justice sequence.

A guard walked into the middle of the litigants and witnesses and said, "Court's over, boys.

Neither of the litigants was a stranger to courtrooms, so it was no surprise that Mr.

Attendants began to urge the disappointed litigants outside into the spring sunshine.

Another, the hammer-sign stitched neatly onto his gray tunic, waved the two disputants of the last case over toward Father Boniface, to see the jarl's doom written out twice and witnessed, one copy to remain in the jarl's scriptorium, the other to be torn carefully in two and divided between the litigants, so that neither could present a forgery at some future court.

The lawyers and litigants always got a complete list of the jury pool two weeks before trial.