legal action

noun

: a process to have a court of law settle an argument

He plans on taking legal action against the company.

Examples of legal action in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Read in full from Martha McHardy on Newsweek. 08:35 AM EDT DOJ threatens legal action against California public schools over trans athlete The U.S. Department of Justice has threatened legal action against California public schools for allowing transgender athletes to compete in high school sports. —Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) reiterated a call for the U.S. Department of Justice to pursue legal action against Hunter and James Biden, based on several investigations the Oversight Committee has pursued. —Asher Notheis, The Washington Examiner, 1 June 2025

Recently, Hawaii and Michigan announced plans for legal action against fossil fuel companies for harms caused by climate change, though the states have been met by counter lawsuits from the U.S. Justice Department. —Arkansas Online, 30 May 2025

So why wasn’t significant legal action taken until last year? —Josh Meyer, USA Today, 29 May 2025

Rhymes for legal action

• benefaction
• counteraction
• interaction
• liquefaction
• putrefaction
• rarefaction
• satisfaction
• stupefaction
• tumefaction
• abstraction
• attraction
• compaction