bring suit
Example Sentences
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The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 makes it far too easy to bring suit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
The pioneering feature of the law is that it places enforcement in the hands not of government authorities, but of any private individual who chooses to bring suit.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2021
Even though attorneys general from two states have already announced their intent to bring suit against the change, the new regulations went into effect immediately.
From Slate • Oct. 12, 2017
In 2013, Ian Campeau, an Ojibwe man, turned to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal to bring suit against the Nepean Redskins, an amateur football team near Ottawa.
From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2016
The crop was so severely damaged that farmers sought to bring suit against the state for negligence in not warning them that this might happen.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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