as in complainants
the person in a legal proceeding who makes a charge of wrongdoing against another
the judge ruled that the plaintiff's lawsuit was groundless, and he dismissed it
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Recent Examples of plaintiffs
The lawyers took down affidavits from the plaintiffs’ immigration attorneys—the men themselves were unreachable—and crafted an argument to protect a wider class of migrants in custody.
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Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2025
There is a lot of fear amongst these plaintiffs.
—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
Yet the plaintiffs and their lawyers may never see this money.
—Abigail Dubiniecki, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
In recent years, the Supreme Court has handed a string of wins to churches and religious plaintiffs in disputes with states.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 31 Mar. 2025
For the lead plaintiffs in the investors' suit, the Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System, the scheme allegedly robbed retirees of gains used to sustain their quality of life at a particularly vulnerable time.
—ArsTechnica, 31 Mar. 2025
The district court ruled that, because of this disparity, the plaintiffs had been denied equal protection.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
There was a ton of evidence, but it was agreed that the most powerful witness for the plaintiffs was a ten-by-twenty-foot map of the city that showed the evolution of residential segregation.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
In order to get a court to endorse this solution, the plaintiffs had to show that what looked like de-facto segregation, just the pattern resulting from personal housing choices, was a result of state action.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2025
There is a lot of fear amongst these plaintiffs.
—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
Yet the plaintiffs and their lawyers may never see this money.
—Abigail Dubiniecki, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
In recent years, the Supreme Court has handed a string of wins to churches and religious plaintiffs in disputes with states.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 31 Mar. 2025
For the lead plaintiffs in the investors' suit, the Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System, the scheme allegedly robbed retirees of gains used to sustain their quality of life at a particularly vulnerable time.
—ArsTechnica, 31 Mar. 2025
The district court ruled that, because of this disparity, the plaintiffs had been denied equal protection.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
There was a ton of evidence, but it was agreed that the most powerful witness for the plaintiffs was a ten-by-twenty-foot map of the city that showed the evolution of residential segregation.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
In order to get a court to endorse this solution, the plaintiffs had to show that what looked like de-facto segregation, just the pattern resulting from personal housing choices, was a result of state action.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Plaintiffs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plaintiffs. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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