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Remand means "order back" or "send back". After losing a case in a lower court, lawyers will frequently appeal it to a higher court. If the higher court looks at the case and sees that the lower court made certain kinds of errors, it will simply remand it, while telling the lower court how it fell short the first time: by not instructing the jury thoroughly, for example, or by not taking into account a recent related court decision.
Examples of remand in a Sentence
Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 23 May 2024
Now eight years after that terrible incident, the appellate panel reviewing his case has overturned the lower court’s initial decision in favor of the condominium association and remanded it back for further proceedings.
—Jacob Leuze, Miami Herald, 18 May 2024
Grossman was remanded to jail and faces 34 years to life in prison at sentencing, which was delayed until at least June.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
The board’s chairman, Mark Bowen, told the Statesman by phone that DEQ had not provided sufficient evidence to back up its approach, which led the board to remand the permit.
—Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 10 May 2024
The board remanded the permit back to an administrative hearing officer at DEQ to be addressed, according to the order.
—Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 10 May 2024
The three-judge panel remanded the case to a lower court to determine if Netflix violated the copyright of Tim Sepi, the videographer who shot the scene.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 May 2024
Prosecutors asked Judge Curtis Farber to remand Weinstein, the Associated Press reports.
—Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 1 May 2024
Additionally, the Court could remand the case to the D.C. judge to determine if Trump's actions qualify as official acts.
—Nik Popli, TIME, 24 Apr. 2024
Adam Parness, Billboard, 22 May 2024
In the meantime, Florida’s secretary of state—who reported to Bush’s brother Jeb, then governor—had certified the election for Bush, and some of the clerks hoped that the remand would force local officials to resolve the conflict.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2024
Felon has been fully informed that any deviation from official protocol will result in immediate remand to Miami-Dade Corrections.
—David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
After three months on remand she was tried by a military tribunal, inside the Insein Prison and without legal representation.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
The elimination of the step that produced a lesser pool in the CRB rate determination for 2018-2022 was a key factor in the appeals court remand of that rate determination.
—Ed Christman, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2021
The defendants were taken to a remand center between hearings.
—Natasha Khan, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2021
Both men are under remand and will appear in court in September.
—Bethlehem Feleke, CNN, 29 Aug. 2023
In February 2022, the Department of the Interior requested the U.S. District Court for Alaska grant voluntary remand.
—Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
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“Remand.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/remand. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
Copy CitationLegal Definition
remand
1 of 2 verb
McCarton v. Estate of Watson, 693 P.2d 192 (1984)K. A. Cohenremand
2 of 2 nounVerb
Anglo-French remander, from Middle French, to order back, from Late Latin remandare to send back word, from Latin re- back + mandare to order
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