(v. t.) To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in Chancery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Isabel LeBourdais, a Canadian journalist, published a book defending Truscott that eventually led to a judicial rehearing, but his conviction was upheld.
(2) On Tuesday, the group filed an emergency motion for a rehearing, suggesting that it be conducted “en banc,” that is, before the full court.
(3) The appellant is applying for an order setting aside the judgment of the House of Lords and, if granted, for permission to rely on fresh evidence at the rehearing of the appeal.” Families were forced to leave the islands in the 1960s and 1970s to make way for a US air force base on the largest island, Diego Garcia.
(4) So an appeal is not a rehearing of the evidence: the appeal judges cannot overturn an earlier decision simply because they might have decided the case differently themselves.
(5) On Tuesday the office of the attorney general, Scott Pruitt, asked the state supreme court to rehear the case, arguing the court had caused chaos for the bifurcated appeals system of the state .
(6) A three-judge panel of the ninth circuit upheld the conviction in a unanimous vote last year, but a majority of the court’s 28 participating judges voted to have the larger group rehear the appeal.
(7) The Wisconsin Department of Justice sent an email in response to requests for comment, stating: “We have nothing to add regarding today’s denial for a rehearing en banc in the federal voter ID cases.” The state attorney general filed a brief with the seventh circuit court of appeals on Tuesday, asking that it refuse to re-hear the case.
(8) On Tuesday, the state attorney general, Scott Pruitt, asked the state supreme court to rehear the case, and the court rejected that request almost immediately.