litigant

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It has told every future court, and every future litigant, exactly what its assurances are worth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

The judge said it was "most unsatisfactory" that a litigant would attack the jury and accused him of disregarding the court rules.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2024

Ridley-Thomas’ appellate case marks Watford’s first time appearing as a litigant before his former colleagues since he left the bench in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2024

Even more consequentially, anyone who thinks that an appellate judge will embrace a litigant who has attacked the legal system, the presiding judge, and that judge’s law clerk has no understanding of the real world.

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2023

On the occasion of a dispute between two of his vassals about the boundaries of a manor, the defeated litigant bribed one of Nobunaga's principal staff-officers to appeal for reversal of the judgment.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)