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Murrill is now using that discredited plea deal against Brooks, just as she did in Duncan’s case, in an attempt to quash his compensation claim.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

Lawyers for the Times filed motions to quash all the subpoenas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

It is a savvy move and coalition-building exercise that likely will quash accusations Warsh is ripping apart the very fabric of the Fed.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Baroness Louise Casey, who led the national investigation into grooming gangs, called on the government last year to quash any convictions of victims who were criminalised when they should have been protected.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

Colonial governments, and later the United States, frequently deployed rangers to quash Indigenous resistance and displace Indigenous nations.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Many officers have described to me problems that include “kill the messenger” management that quashes bad news, as well as dangerous supervision lapses, watered-down policing standards and policing-knowledge gaps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

He said he hoped the court reaches "the right decision and quashes the conviction" after three senior judges set his appeal for July.

From BBC ● May 3, 2023

When pressed if he’s experienced that type of idolization himself, he quashes the idea: “I’ve seen where that goes. That’s a lesson I learned the hard way, from losing a friend.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022

The Big Apple quashes them quickly in “I Mean Business,” the show’s efficient opener.

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2022

Outside old Mrs. Picture's door comes a moment of irresolution, but she quashes it and goes on.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

Milwaukee’s Logan Henderson quashed the Dodgers’ offense, giving up just three hits and one run over seven innings, to give the Brewers a 6-2 win in front of an announced crowd of 45,828.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

On Wednesday, the High Court of Australia quashed the reduced sentence, ruling it was "not open" to the Court of Appeal to "interfere" with the original decision.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

But in October last year the Supreme Court quashed that argument, saying that any such cash likely stemmed from illegal bribes and therefore should not be counted.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

District Court Judge Patrick Schiltz quashed the “unlawful” subpoenas, ruling that “overwhelming evidence” suggested they “were not issued to investigate, but to harass, coerce, and retaliate.”

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026

In August, the court quashed one of the two charges under the Suppression of Communism Act.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

A federal judge denied the Department of Justice’s motion to vacate an order quashing subpoenas, citing harassment of former Fed chair Jerome Powell.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

Most important, she outmaneuvered the Texas judge by quashing the subpoena itself, finding that it was an illegitimate and unconstitutional invasion of privacy.

From Slate ● May 19, 2026

The real-estate lobby had been successful in quashing previous efforts to tax second homes, including in 2014 and 2019.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

For decades, corporate executives have been quashing workers’ efforts to gain a fair reward for their labor.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026

Jack, who had blustered exceedingly as to his chances of bamboozling the Quarter-sessions, and quashing the sentence of the Justices, looked certainly not a little discomfited at the result of his appeal.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various