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  • "You admit attacking the plaintiff?" he asked.†  (source)
  • For that reason, the plaintiffs shall be required to pay fees and costs.†  (source)
  • In a landmark ruling, New York Times v. Sullivan changed the standard for defamation and libel by requiring plaintiffs to prove malice—that is, evidence of actual knowledge on the part of the publisher that a statement is false.†  (source)
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  • The defendant was Gregory Madison, the plaintiff the People of the State of New York.†  (source)
  • Before taking his seat, he ambled over to the bench where the plaintiffs were sitting and greeted each of them.†  (source)
  • Then let's have the plaintiff's allegations.†  (source)
  • Ultimately the defendants (the crew of another ship) came up with the whale, struck, killed, seized, and finally appropriated it before the very eyes of the plaintiffs.†  (source)
  • "If don't seem regular to me," he said, "to have the plaintiff acting as defense attorney."†  (source)
  • The three plaintiffs in this case I'd like to see here in my chambers after dinner.†  (source)
  • If I stayed in bed when the verdict was read, did that mean the plaintiff lost by default?†  (source)
  • In the cage we rose and dropped, rubbing elbows with bigshots and operators, commissioners, grabbers, heelers, tipsters, hoodlums, wolves, fixers, plaintiffs, flatfeet, men in Western hats and women in lizard shoes and fur coats, hothouse and arctic drafts mixed up, brute things and airs of sex, evidence of heavy feeding and systematic shaving, of calculations, grief, not-caring, and hopes of tremendous millions in concrete to be poured or whole Mississippis of bootleg whisky and beer.†  (source)
  • It was pure plaintiff-attorney paradise and it felt odd to Robert to be looking at it from the other end.†  (source)
  • According to the plaintiffs in the case, ConAgra's price-fixing scheme gouged independent wholesalers, small retailers, and consumers.†  (source)
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