legal challenge
Formal judicial dispute
A legal challenge is a formal attempt to dispute or overturn a law, ruling, or official action through the court system.
Organizations and individuals mount legal challenges when they believe something violates constitutional rights or exceeds authority: The law faces a legal challenge from civil liberties groups.
The term often appears in news coverage of contested policies.
- objectionExpression of disapproval
- judgeOne who decides
- litigationLegal dispute process
- argumentReasoned case or dispute
- day in courtChance to present one's case
precedent · test case · cross-examination · burden of proof · due process · judicial review · justiciability · equal protection · civil liberties · fundamental rights · constitutional right · standing · ripeness · injunction · mootness · bench · supreme court · separation of powers
- election disputescontested results, recount, recounts, vote recount, vote recounts
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
- executionexecution, lethal injection, firing squad, gas chamber, electric chair
- lie detectionpolygraph, lie detector, polygraph test, polygraph tests, truth serum
- detention rightshabeas corpus, pretrial detention, pre-trial detention, remand, detention hearing
- draft defermentsdraft deferment, deferment, draft exemption, military exemption, student deferment
legal challengeacceptance
Consent to receive
acquiescence · compliance · consent · legal compliance · concession
legal challengeinaction
Deliberate nonmovement
passivity · silence · default · doing nothing