dissental
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dissental (plural dissentals)
- (US, law, colloquial) A dissent from an order denying rehearing en banc.
- 2012, Alex Kozinski, James Burnham, “I Say Dissental, You Say Concurral”, in The Yale Law Journal Online:
- Increasing numbers of circuit judges are writing dissents from, and concurrences in, orders denying rehearing en banc—colloquially known as dissentals and concurrals.