All 6 Uses of
plaintiff
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
- The only party present in support of Shay—and my first witness—was Father Michael, seated just behind the plaintiff's table.†
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- "In fact," Maggie said, "he's the plaintiff in this case who was sitting beside me at that table, isn't that correct?"†
- At the plaintiff's table, I closed my eyes—at the very least, Shay had surely just lost the case for himself; at the most, I was going to wind up with a cross being burned on my lawn.†
- I wondered whether remaking him in the image of a viable plaintiff said more about who he was willing to be, or whom I had become.†
- If I stayed in bed when the verdict was read, did that mean the plaintiff lost by default?†
- Maggie's hand slipped back through the slatted rails that separated the first row of the gallery from the plaintiff's table.†
Definition:
a person who brings a legal action against another in a court of law