legal proceeding

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Simons manages a legal proceeding called Northern California Clergy Cases, in which nearly 1,800 individual lawsuits have been filed against seven Catholic dioceses, including Fresno.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025

The second impeachment of Donald Trump was a legal proceeding.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2025

The report is not a legal proceeding, Sidoti explained, and commissioners did not seek to prove allegations “beyond reasonable doubt,” as in a court of law.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2024

“I will not allow this legal proceeding to turn into a circus,” Wallace said as the hearing began.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2024

To him, all ceremony was affectation, and the refinements of legal proceeding were, in his estimation, anti-republican innovations upon the original simplicity of mankind.

From Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States by Darley, F.O.C.