Example Sentences

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Critics may argue that issue preclusion, like universal injunctions, has the potential to chill executive action.

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2025

Remember when Seattle was 29-39 after losing three in a row to the Angels and seemingly headed for another playoff preclusion?

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023

"The prosecutor in charge, with total autonomy and independence and attentive to criteria of legal impartiality and probatory objectivity, considers that the grounds for preclusion have been met," it added.

From Reuters • Aug. 1, 2022

At one point Alito excoriates Breyer for relying solely on the Restatement of Judgments treatise rather than precedent to justify his ruling that claim preclusion doesn’t bar the petitioners from bringing this suit.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2016

I have, in a former letter, alluded to the prevalence of the Presbyterian church government in Mississippi, to the preclusion of Congregationalists.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt