legal action

基本解释

A doctor, for example, can recommend a course of treatment for an illness;a lawyer can advise us on a course of legal action.
比如，医生会针对一种疾病建议我们进行一个疗程的治疗；律师为我们的法律诉讼提供建议。
Suppose the administrator needs to create a new table on the credit checking server to store information about customers on the bad credit list that require legal action.
假设管理员需要在信用检查服务器上创建一个新表，用于存储关于被列入不良信用名单、需要进行法律诉讼的客户的信息。
The ministry recommended punishments ranging from warnings to legal action, and suggested that research funds should be withdrawn from plagiarists and academic awards revoked.
该部建议，对于此种行为的惩罚等级从警告到法律诉讼，并应撤销剽窃者的科研资金和学术奖励。

Ida Tarbell's investigations into Standard Oil were partly responsible for later legal action by the federal government against the company.
In two thousand five, a group of high school students brought legal action against a Pennsylvania school district.
Fear of legal action alone,he said, "cannot justify an employer's reliance on race" if it hurts qualified individuals.

Thus, this would not appear to be a matter than can be resolved by legal action.
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the act of using a lawyer or a court to help settle a disagreement, etc. that you have with a person or an organization