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is defendants
noun
In civil proceedings, the party responding to the complaint; one who is sued and called upon to make satisfaction for a wrong complained of by another.
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Advocates said one recurring problem is defendants not allowed by police to take their medications after they are arrested.
"What you worry about," Judge King said, is defendants who get shorter sentences than they deserve "because the court simply has to move the case".
He wrote, "the matter fundamentally at issue here is defendants' performance of its contractual obligations to the government and to the plaintiffs rather than the advisability of any governmental policy-related decision".
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What is defendant going to do?…that's my understanding.
The military justice system is defendant friendly.
"They are defendants, they have rights and we are here to defend them".
Neither were defendants.
They are defendants in civil suits, not plaintiffs.
The judge's ruling could portend problems for other banks that are defendants in similar cases.
To the lawyers in the room, they were "defendants" or "clients".
She treats TV interviewers as if they were defendants in a legal investigation.
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