counterclaims in English

noun
1
a claim made to rebut a previous claim.
And as with any hot scandal, it is fast developing into a whole new blame game altogether with claims and counterclaims flying all over the place - and that's just in the blogosphere.
verb
1
make a counterclaim for something.
It should be noted that the defendant counterclaimed against the plaintiffs for general damages of $250, 000.00 and punitive damages of $50, 000.00.

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1. 3) Highlight counterclaims the Clergymen address in green

2. In federal practice, some Counterclaims are compulsory under Rule 13 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

3. The defendant may admit or rebut the claims and shall have the right to file counterclaims.

4. Moreover, the Court ruled on several complex incidental proceedings, such as admissibility of counterclaims and requests for joinder.

5. The Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment of non-infringement for the defendants-Appellees, and it vacated and remanded on counterclaims of invalidity

6. The allegations were that these guys were Muslim Brotherhood and they were throwing Syrian Army officers'bodies off the bridge, and they were cursing and using blasphemous language, and there were lots of counterclaims about who they were, and whether or not they were what the video said it was.

7. The allegations were that these guys were Muslim Brotherhood and they were throwing Syrian Army officers' bodies off the bridge, and they were cursing and using blasphemous language, and there were lots of counterclaims about who they were, and whether or not they were what the video said it was.

8. There is always the option of the ‘summary judgment’ – aimed at speeding up the task of the court responsible for making the decision with concise grounds and referrals per relationem – which must be limited, as appropriate, for decisions that the Community trade mark and design courts are called upon to make in counterclaims for a declaration of invalidity or revocation of the corresponding rights involved in national infringement proceedings (Article 92 of Regulation 40/94 and Article 81 of Regulation 6/2002): decisions intended to have ‘erga omnes’ effect throughout the territory of the European Union for which excessive conciseness could be counterproductive to a universal accurate comprehension of the ‘abolitionary’ scope of the decision.