relitigation

American  

[ree-lit-i-gay-shuhn] / ˌri lɪt ɪˈgeɪ ʃən /

noun

plural

relitigations

1. the act or process of relitigating.

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Example Sentences

Courts value closure, fear endless relitigation, and worry about conflicting judgments.

From Slate

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

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

"A federal habeas court may not conduct an evidentiary hearing or otherwise consider evidence beyond the state court record based on ineffective assistance of state post-conviction counsel," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority, adding that "serial relitigation of final convictions undermines the finality that 'is essential to both the retributive and deterrent functions of criminal law.'"

From Salon

“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