countersue

verb

countersue

verb

Etymology From counter- + sue.

1

Law To sue a person or entity who is suing one.

Forrest later attacked Willis in New York, knocking him to the ground; lawsuits proliferated as Willis sued Forrest for assault, and Forrest countersued for libel.2014, Eric L. Haralson, Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, page 497:

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