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Variables petitioner and respondent provide detailed information about all parties, except the identity of the state if a state (or one of its subdivisions) is a party, petitioner and respondent variables note only whether a state is a party, not the state's name.
What is RESPONDENT? The party who makes an answer to a bill or other proceeding in chancery. The party who appeals against the judgment of au inferior court is termed the ap- pellant; and he who contends against the appeal, the respondent. The word also de- notes the person upou whom an ordinary petition in the court of chancery (or a libel in admiralty) is served, and who is, as it were, a defendant thereto.