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But his claim was rejected by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals under a 1994 precedent that disallows using such lawsuits to collaterally attack criminal convictions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

But 9/11, the 2001 terrorist attack by Islamist extremists, collaterally and paradoxically grounded Rushdie.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2022

I’m assuming this collaterally means my kids will also not have a relationship with my father, which I’m mostly fine with.

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2020

Their challenge, English argues, was how to “convict Bulger without collaterally tarnishing the reputation of the system they represented.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 21, 2015

French aviation derives directly from Lilienthal and collaterally from the Wrights.

From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir