Litigants : Any persons or groups engaged in a lawsuit.
Pending : In process; not yet decided.
Perjury : A false statement made willfully and knowingly while under oath in a court proceeding.
litigants: The parties (sides) involved in a lawsuit.
litigate: To conduct or engage in a lawsuit.
litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. The people involved in lawsuits (plaintiffs and defendants) are called "litigants." ...
Sometimes pro se litigants who have lost their initial lawsuits file new actions based on the dispute contained in the original suit. Because the judgment of the original case is dispositive, a court will ultimately dismiss these new actions.
Case Management Case management is a concern of the court, where limited judicial resources demand that litigants pursue their causes expeditiously.
Expanded Legal Definition of Emptio or EmtioEquity A branch of English law which developed hundreds of years ago when litigants would go to the King and complain of harsh or inflexible rules of common law which prevented "justice" from prevailing.
Equity A branch of English law which developed hundreds of years ago when litigants would go to the King and complain of harsh or inflexible rules of common law which prevented "justice" from prevailing.
1 : to ascertain the number of : COUNT 2 : to specify one after another : LIST TOP Equity : A branch of English law which developed hundreds of years ago when litigants would go to the King and complain of harsh or inflexible rules of ...
ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance), a lawyer authorized to plead the causes of litigants in courts of law.
pro se claimant whose antics, involving forty-plus civil rights complaints filed in a multitude of circuits, were described as wasting judicial resources and resulting in a 'dead-weight social loss except for giving satisfaction to litigants who ...
Litigants representative of all social and economic classes are parties within the system.
: to regroup (one or more litigants) to reflect the true arrangement of interests in a suit ...
party - One of the litigants usually referred to as the plaintiff or defendant.
patent - Right to hold a legal monopoly on the manufacture or sale of a invention, granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).
Adjudication is the legal process by which an arbiter or judge reviews evidence and argumentation including legal reasoning set forth by opposing parties or litigants to come to a decision which determines rights and obligations between the parties ...
discovery and disclosure: Rules 26-37; the processes by which litigants may learn before trial what evidence their opponent intends to rely on. Discovery may include depositions, interrogatories, requests for documents, physical examinations, etc.
Pleading: A pleading is the process of making formal, written statements by the litigants. All papers filed with the court are collectively referred to as "pleadings."
Precedent: The value that a completed case has on deciding future cases.
Pleading: The process of making formal, written statements by litigants during a lawsuit. All papers filed with the court are collectively referred to as "pleadings." ...
stpulation of settlement: A formal agreement between litigants and/or their attorneys resolving their dispute.
sua sponte: upon its own motion, initiation or will; without a prior request ...
Out-of-court settlement
An agreement between two litigants to settle a matter privately before the Court has rendered its decision.
Litigants "seek justice" by asking for compensation for wrongs committed against them; to right the inequity such that, with the compensation, a wrong has been righted and the balance of "good" or "virtue" over "wrong" or "evil" has been corrected.
settlement 1 : the act or process of settling 2 a : an agreement reducing or resolving differences ;esp : an agreement between litigants that concludes the litigation [the states finally agreed upon a and a ...
Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
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Housing Specialist: A person who provides pretrial mediation of landlord/tenant cases to reach settlement. Also provides information about community resources to litigants.
Affinity: The ties and relationship between a person and the blood relations of his or her spouse. (A judge is disqualified from a case if he is in any way related to, or has any affinity to, any one of the litigants.) ...
Refusing to answer a proper question, to file court papers on time, to pay court-ordered child support, or to follow local court rules can expose witnesses, lawyers, and litigants to contempt findings.
must take place fairly early in the lawsuit, shortly after a complaint and answer have been filed and not just before trial since that could prejudice one or both parties who have prepared for trial on the basis of the original litigants.
amicus curiae
n. Latin for "friend of the court," a party or an organization interested in an issue which files a brief or participates in the argument in a case in which that party or organization is not one of the litigants.
Soon itinerant royal courts were established to spare civil litigants the labor and expense of going to the capital at Westminster and to afford hearings to persons held on criminal charges in county jails. By the 14th cent.
The system of precedent forms the basis of the policy of stare decisis which helps litigants to predict the outcome of a case in a given situation.
 See also: Litigant, Court, Law, State, Person
  
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