How to Use legal action in a Sentence

legal action

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  • The legal action is the latest in a series of moves that will be brought against the state GOP, the group said.
    — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • All of the legal action Tuesday took place in New York.
    — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
  • In exchange, Balow agreed not to file legal action against the state.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • If that does not happen, Prince, who was sued the city in the past, threatened legal action.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 2 May 2024
  • There's legal action at play that could force Apple to pull the Series 9 from stores.
    — Cierra Cowan, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Sources told the Tribune that the team was considering legal action if the fest forces them to move.
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2024
  • The Texas Tribune's Eleanor Klibanoff first reported news of the legal action.
    — Dan Carson, Chron, 10 Mar. 2023
  • In extreme cases, this kind of breach of contract could lead to legal action.
    — Byalexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The video, which was released on YouTube, was made private after news of the legal action went public.
    — Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The suit against Tesla is the second legal action against Musk’s business empire in as many days.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
  • For Iñigo, his wife’s legal action comes as a total shock.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
  • This is not the first time the SEC has initiated legal action against Kraken.
    — Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The legal action from Silverman isn’t the first to focus on how large language models are trained.
    — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 10 July 2023
  • For Bradley, 56, the decision to pursue legal action wasn’t easy.
    — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
  • This is a rare case of space junk causing damage on Earth, and the homeowner may be seeking legal action.
    — Passant Rabie / Gizmodo, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The lawsuit is not the first legal action Elson’s group has taken against Allred and his company.
    — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2023
  • While migrant waves have not overwhelmed the city, the City Council last month voted to pursue legal action against Texas.
    — Miriam Jordan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • While migrant waves have not overwhelmed the city so far, the City Council last month voted to pursue legal action against Texas.
    — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • When asked if the group plans on pursuing any further legal action, McNab said the group hasn’t met yet to discuss the ruling.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The politics of any legal action involving Trump are hard to miss.
    — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The village is prepared to take further legal action against the candidates, the letter states.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
  • By the terms of the proposal, Wright would halt his own legal action in the connected cases and forfeit the right to pursue IP rights over Bitcoin.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Thus far, the Williams family hasn’t revealed plans to pursue legal action to place Williams under their care.
    — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Gary’s suit — the last surviving legal action from the wave of municipal suits filed more than two decades ago — is in jeopardy.
    — Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, 30 July 2024
  • In any legal action, the limitations of the NCAA and its enforcement staff could become key.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 4 Aug. 2024
  • This wasn’t the first time Musk has threatened legal action against an advocacy group.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Carroll said that so far no further legal action has been taken to collect the money owed, but that is likely to change this month.
    — Richard Halstead, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The city’s Police Department threatened legal action for the chaos.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
  • In a later legal action, Andrea sued for permanent custody of the couple’s two girls, ages 7 and 4.
    — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
  • The threat of legal action came after news broke that a group of Malaysian musicians and festival vendors were prepping a class action lawsuit against the 1975 for losses incurred from the event’s cancellation.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2024

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