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litigate

verb as in bring matter before court of law

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Especially in heavily litigated Pennsylvania, courts upheld those changes.

Instead they chose to litigate around the truth, pretending there was a legitimate path to overturning state results when the law made clear there wasn’t.

From Quartz

Whatever the decision is will be litigated because they’re going to fight it.

From Digiday

Don’t try to show him stuff or re-litigate his refusal to look.

Still, experts point out that these procedures are far from perfect, and some are still being litigated.

From Vox

That it took 12 years to litigate without one does no credit to the legal system.

Did you get the impression that Cosby would litigate anything he found in your book to be controversial?

Innocence is not a basis for appealing and we could not re-litigate innocence on appeal.

Our super-rich can litigate and settle their way out of charges we peons could never escape.

Rather than embrace the future, the two sides endlessly litigate the past.

He would not approve of her accepting the hand of a man who would be resolved to litigate this matter with him.

They cannot come into court to litigate their claims, nor can a court decide on them.

They are now protected by the treaty, but we will litigate them out of all their grants.

But so long as it's nobody but Goshorn, I'm goin' to stay and litigate the question till the Millerite millennium comes.

Many litigate in court, not that they may gain anything, but that they may harass others.

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to litigate, such as: prosecute, appeal, contest, dispute, sue, and drag into court.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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