petitioner

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The Commerce Department “should be concerned about who the petitioner is,” said Pasquale Casillo, who oversees exports at Pastificio Liguori, one of the affected pasta companies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

Two years later, the court dismissed the petition, directing the petitioner to approach the committee handling transfers of wild animals by zoos.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2025

“It is highly, highly unusual to be seeking detention of a petitioner given the factual record of today,” Judge Michael Farbiarz said on Friday.

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2025

The petitioner does not ask the court to create new doctrine, only to restore the one already written into the Fourth Amendment: that reasonableness is a question of context, not of isolated frames.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2025

Dany found herself glancing at them as yet another petitioner droned on and on.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin