{"id":9089,"date":"2017-11-22T04:11:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T04:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=9089"},"modified":"2017-11-25T07:11:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T07:11:44","slug":"2-counter-complaint","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=9089","title":{"rendered":"Counter-Complaint – a complaint filed by a defendant against the plaintiff, alleging that the plaintiff has committed a breach and is liable to the defendant for\u00a0damages"},"content":{"rendered":"

counter-complaint:<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/strong>n.\u00a0<\/em>(18c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0A complaint filed by a defendant<\/a> against the plaintiff, alleging that the plaintiff has committed a breach and is liable to the defendant<\/a> for\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>damages.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>[1]<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The historical counter-complaint appears to have been banned from the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure <\/strong>(see Rule 7<\/strong><\/a>), and\u00a0replaced\u00a0<\/em>with the\u00a0more efficient\u00a0<\/em>counterclaim<\/a>.<\/strong> See Fed. R. Civ. P. 13<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[1]:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Black’s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Deluxe Tenth Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]:\u00a06 Charles Alan Wright et al., Federal Practice and Procedure<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>5 1403, at 15-16 (2d ed. 1990).\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]: Ballantine’s Law Dictionary <\/a>Legal Assistant Edition<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Jack Ballantine\u00a0(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Doctored<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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