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rehearing

n. (context legal English) A second or subsequent hearing of a case. vb. (present participle of rehear English)

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rehearing

n. the act of hearing again [syn: relistening]

Usage examples of "rehearing".

A hearing before judgment, with full opportunity to submit evidence and arguments being all that can be adjudged vital, it follows that rehearings and new trials are not essential to due process of law.

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.