legal challenges
Litigation facing someone
Legal challenges are formal objections or disputes brought through the court system to contest laws, decisions, or actions.
A regulation might face legal challenges from industry groups; an election result might face legal challenges from the losing candidate.
The phrase often appears in news coverage of controversial policies: The executive order immediately drew legal challenges from civil liberties organizations.
- judicial reviewCourts invalidating unconstitutional acts
- injunctionCourt-ordered behavioral requirement
- appealFormal review request
- appeals courtCourt reviewing contested rulings
- lawsuitCivil court proceeding
court battle · defendant · jurisdiction · statute · civil liberties · due process · amendment · deposition · equal protection · standing · burden of proof · plaintiff · class action · discovery process · red tape · cross-examination · ordinance · cease and desist
- 2000 ElectionFlorida recount, hanging chads, Bush v. Gore, Al Gore, George W. Bush
- censorshipbanned books, censored, banned, book banning, book bans
- church-statechurch-state, separation, church-state separation, establishment clause, religious accommodation
- election disputescontested results, recount, recounts, vote recount, vote recounts
- electionsballot, ballots, voter registration, candidates, polls
- vaccinesvaccine, Pfizer, polio vaccine, Moderna, vaccines
legal challengessettlements
Established communities or agreements
plea bargains · consent decrees · compromises · compromise · conciliation
legal challengescourt approval
Judge's formal permission
legal recognition · ratification · certification · acquiescence · rubber-stamping