petitioner

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The Commerce Department “should be concerned about who the petitioner is,” said Pasquale Casillo, who oversees exports at Pastificio Liguori, one of the affected pasta companies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

“It is highly, highly unusual to be seeking detention of a petitioner given the factual record of today,” Judge Michael Farbiarz said on Friday.

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2025

The petitioner does not ask the court to create new doctrine, only to restore the one already written into the Fourth Amendment: that reasonableness is a question of context, not of isolated frames.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2025

“I would not send petitioner to his death on such flimsy evidence,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024

In all but one, the government was the petitioner.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander