noun
- a legal pleading that responds to a rebutter in court proceedings
Usage: legal
Examples
- The plaintiff’s attorney filed a surrebutter to counter the defendant’s rebutter.
- After reviewing the rebutter, the legal team prepared their surrebutter within the court-mandated timeframe.
- The judge allowed the surrebutter to be submitted despite the approaching deadline.
- In complex litigation, a surrebutter may be necessary to address new arguments raised in the rebutter.
- The surrebutter clarified several points that were disputed in the previous pleading.