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 • 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