relitigation
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Courts value closure, fear endless relitigation, and worry about conflicting judgments.
From Slate • Jan. 8, 2026
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
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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