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• a  of or relating to litigation
• s  inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits
  a litigious and acrimonious spirit

• Says Cynthia Kisser, the network's Chicago-based executive director: "Scientology is quite likely the most ruthless, the most classically terroristic, the most litigious and the .
• You'll hear a litany of complaints about Kafka-esque bureaucracies, litigious patients, unreasonable insurance companies, too few nurses, never enough time, too much testing and .
• Nevertheless, since prosecutors and litigious Californians flood the court with more than 220,000 cases annually, and since criminal matters have priority, it takes more than .

• contentious
• combative
• disputatious
• disputative

News & Articles

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• The Nightmare on East 73rd Street Is Over: Pavia House Sells for $19.5 M.
  Vacant as the day it was born. Nearly two decades after George and Antonia Pavia signed a lease on their Upper East Side townhouse with notoriously litigious tenant James Couri, sparking years of legal wrangling and copious quantities of press, the couple's time at 18 East 73rd Street is finally coming to a close: they've signed a contract to sell the neo-Georgian brick townhouse for $19.5 ...
  June 10, 2013 - The New York Observer
• Malpractice suits on the rise in county
  The number of medical malpractice lawsuits filed in Lancaster County last year hit a six-year high, and 2012 was the second most-litigious year on record — all at a time when malpractice lawsuits statewide plummeted.According to data from the Lancaster County Prothonotary and the Administrativ...
  June 9, 2013 - Lancaster Online

Quotes

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• Clara Furse in Forbes
  The cost of London is significantly lower than the US,Furse said. "The US market is very litigious, in fact is remarkably litigious, and that just is not so in the UK"
• Eric Ripper in Sydney Morning Herald
  The commissioner will provide a low-cost non-litigious means of resolving disputes between landlords and tenants in retail shopping centres,Mr Ripper said.
• Helen Clark in Ninemsn
  If we are entering a more litigious age then anybody in public life from a media figure to fashion designer to politician - a high profile person - is vulnerable to such action,Clark said.