relitigation
Americannoun
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relitigations
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This was self-evidently dumb, and not just because of the obsessive relitigation of a pandemic that ended when all these sorority girls were barely out of junior high.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2025
Justice Thomas wrote that the “sprawling” evidentiary hearing in Mr. Jones’s case amounted to a “wholesale relitigation of Jones’s guilt” that was “plainly not” envisioned under a previous Supreme Court decision in 2012.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
“Serial relitigation of final convictions undermines the finality that ‘is essential to both the retributive and deterrent functions of criminal law,’ ” Thomas wrote, quoting a previous Supreme Court case.
From Washington Post ● May 23, 2022
Some notable examples of this phenomenon are the yearly conversation about whether “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is problematic or the annual relitigation of whether Die Hard is in fact a Christmas movie.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2017
You can hear in these lines Pound’s relitigation of the past, clearing himself of “vanity” and “error”: that rash young man who ate the tulips has taken his valiant older self as passionate defender.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 24, 2015
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