litigate
verb (used with object)
to make the subject of a lawsuit; contest at law.
had litigated
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past perfectof litigate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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CompuServe, which Kayser had litigated in the early ’90s.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2020
The public defender asked his assistants to pull other cases he had litigated, and noticed that the same inmates kept procuring confessions like some prison prelate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2020
Seth P. Waxman, a lawyer for Apple, responded that Samsung had litigated the case on the understanding that the entire phone was the relevant product and that it could not change its mind now.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2016
We were still very actively litigating on behalf of condemned children in Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana—Southern states where we had litigated previously.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
