Meanings
plural disgrantles
- UScolloquiallawA dissent from an order granting rehearing en banc.
1 more example
While dissentals are more common, judges on both this and other courts have, on occasion, penned dissents from the grant of en banc review. ... These disgrantles are understandably rare.... […] But because the Ninth Circuit’s peculiar en banc procedures do not guarantee participation in the en banc panel to all active judges, a disgrantle is the only guaranteed way a judge on this court can publicly explain why it was inappropriate for our court to take a particular case en banc.
2024, Lawrence VanDyke, United States v. Duarte, page 2
Origin
From dissental, by surface analysis, dis- + grant + -le.
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