What's the difference between plaintiff and respondent?

Plaintiff


Definition:

  • (n.) One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to defendant.
  • (a.) See Plaintive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A coalition of plaintiffs suing Texas – which includes minority rights groups, voters and Democratic lawmakers – say their experts have estimated 787,000 registered voters lacking one of seven acceptable forms of ID.
  • (2) Ultimately, the judgments combine to make a particularly peculiar melange: among the plaintiffs there is a mix of economic pessimism and insecure nationalism with a shot of nostalgia for the Deutschmark.
  • (3) While it is not directly related to the name issue, the plaintiffs were hoping that Abe’s quest to raise the profile of women in the workplace would help their cause.
  • (4) Plaintiff's attorney commented that it is often a hospital employee who advises the family to consult an attorney and described some of the constraints on information gathering (e.g., the rule of "discovery" requiring that suit be filed before defendants can be forced to give statements about what happened, insurance contract provisions prohibiting physicians from talking without legal counsel present to persons who indicate that they plan to file suit).
  • (5) Part of the legal submission, quoted by the LA Times, declares that: "In order to close financing to produce a motion picture based on Effie, [the plaintiff] must be able to demonstrate that there is no validity to Mr Murphy's claim of infringement."
  • (6) Moreover, the constitution protects the plaintiffs’ fundamental rights, which include the right to marry and the right to have that marriage recognized by their government.” Utah is the 18th state to allow same-sex marriage.
  • (7) The Physician's Desk Reference (PDR), the published literature, the package insert, the promotional material of pharmaceutical companies, the internal records of drug companies, the pharmacists' records, and the data now obtainable from government agencies all provide happy hunting grounds for a competent plaintiff's attorney.
  • (8) Trump has a long history of fighting his business battles in court, both as plaintiff and defendant , and becoming president has not stopped lawsuits flying against him and now his administration more widely.
  • (9) The major ground relied on was that, whilst there may be no common law duty to warn of the small risk of spontaneous recanalization, the contract in the present case was for the male plaintiff to be sterilized, so that the failure to achieve this result constituted a breach of contract.
  • (10) "An invalid agency decision to suspend drilling of wells in depths of over 500 feet simply cannot justify the immeasurable effect on the plaintiffs, the local economy, the Gulf region, and the critical present-day aspect of the availability of domestic energy in this country," Feldman said in his ruling, according to the Associated Press news agency.
  • (11) Theodore Olson, the lead co-counsel for two of the Virginia plaintiffs, described it as a “ great day” for Virginia and said he looked forward to working with Herring to strike down the state's “odious marriage ban”.
  • (12) Environmental disease usually presents a very different picture, one in which there is considerable uncertainty about the relationship between exposure to toxic substances and the plaintiff's disease.
  • (13) "I did not realize I would be automatically listed as a plaintiff.
  • (14) The plaintiffs say they were not supposed to qualify for premium tax credits, which according to the law were supposed to be available only on exchanges ‘“established by the states”.
  • (15) Furthermore, it demonstrates that the awarding of monetary damages is an appropriate remedy for the wrongful life plaintiff, and it examines possible methods for measuring those damages.
  • (16) I think the Trump administration is spinning.” Schlanger acknowledged that the supreme court’s ruling did not represent a “home run” for the plaintiffs, since the court had not chosen to simply uphold the injunctions by district courts in both Hawaii and Maryland that had previously blocked the Trump administration from enforcing either the travel or refugee ban at all.
  • (17) The plaintiff is David Irving , pre-eminent historian of the Third Reich or respectable face of international extremism, depending who you ask.
  • (18) The three other plaintiffs are all farmers and fishermen from the villages of Oruma, Goi and Ikot Ada Udo, all located in the oil-rich Niger Delta, which is one of Shell's most important oil-producing areas.
  • (19) Plaintiffs must establish competitive injury as well as refute the meeting competition defense.
  • (20) "The shareholder plaintiffs who originally sued HP's directors and officers now agree that Hussain, along with Autonomy's founder and CEO, Michael Lynch, should be held accountable for this fraud."

Respondent


Definition:

  • (a.) Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.
  • (n.) One who responds. It corresponds in general to defendant.
  • (n.) One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant.
  • (n.) One who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; -- distinguished from opponent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
  • (2) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
  • (3) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
  • (4) We evaluated the circadian pattern of gastric acidity by prolonged intraluminal pHmetry in 15 "responder" and 10 "nonresponder" duodenal ulcer patients after nocturnal administration of placebo, ranitidine, and famotidine.
  • (5) In kidney, both age groups responded with an increase in activity.
  • (6) We have evaluated the life-span of B lymphocytes by measuring the functional reactivity of normal B cells upon transfer into xid mice, which do not respond to anti-mu, fluoresceinated-Ficoll (FL-Ficoll) and 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl aminoethylcarbamylmethyl Ficoll (TNP-Ficoll).
  • (7) Data is available to support the early influences of enamel organ epithelium upon a responding mesenchyme in the determination of dental morphogenetic fields (Dryburg, 1967; Miller, 1969).
  • (8) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
  • (9) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
  • (10) The percentage of eggs clamped at values more negative than -65 mV, which responded at insemination by developing an If, decreased and dropped to 0 at -80 mV.
  • (11) The data indicate that adult neurons with an intrinsic ability to regenerate axons can respond to substances with neurotrophic or neurite-promoting activities in tissue cultures.
  • (12) Responding to the 8 vignettes, 30 American and 32 Australian nurses took part in the study.
  • (13) The effect upon ethanol responding was found not to resemble a pattern of extinction, but rather was best described as a general overall reduction in responding.
  • (14) However, in the 'responder' acromegalics, the infusion of DA, besides lowering baseline plasma GH, was capable of reducing the TRH-induced GH rise.
  • (15) The SNT and the I-ELISA indicated that the pigs responded to vaccination and challenge.
  • (16) Seven of 12 who received mannitol responded with a diuresis.
  • (17) The bovine PLC responded differently to E coli, than to the 3 P haemolytica isolates in each of the 3 experimental test systems; however, responses to each of the P haemolytica isolates were not found to be significantly different.
  • (18) There was no correlation between anti-TNP-precipitating antibody titer after sensitization and the ability to respond to challenge by hapten-heterologous carrier.
  • (19) Most respondents (46, 95%) were satisfied with life in general.
  • (20) Mycobacterium kansasii infection responds well to therapy, whereas M avium-intracellulare infection is difficult to treat.