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Rehear

Rehear \Re*hear"\ (r?*h?r"), v. t. To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in Chancery.

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rehear

vb. to hear again

WordNet
rehear
  1. v. hear or try a court case anew [syn: retry]

  2. [also: reheard]

Usage examples of "rehear".

It served to put Brennan in a fairly cooperative mood, because even before the 1969-70 term began in October, Brennan had written Black and Douglas about the possibility of granting an El Paso motion to rehear the controversial case.

Tersely Warren told Landau that the case had been decided on the merits and that any petitions for a rehearing would have to be determined in legal papers.

Several weeks later the Justice Department made a motion for a rehearing, but it was denied.

Under Rule 58 in the Supreme Court rule book, the Court would take a case for rehearing only if one of the members of the voting majority requested it at conference.

Burger decided that a more equitable rule would be to allow any justice, whether that individual had been on the Court or not, to bring up a vote on a rehearing petition.

Rule 37 petition, Stidham also filed a petition with the state Supreme Court for a rehearing of his case.

Frequently flattened by storms, routinely razed by fires, our city was forever rehearing itself like the phoenix.

They will issue warnings and findings and declarations, and finally, when that fails, they will go to the Eutopian Court and plead their case, and the trial will be postponed many times and reheard many more times.

The human concentrated on the wrong materials, learned the language assiduously and reheard reports which he had already been given in his own language, going over old information as if he suspected he could learn something new from it, as if there were discrepancies or untruths in plain statements.