file/initiate a lawsuit

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: to start a process by which a court of law makes a decision to end a disagreement between people or organizations

When the newspaper refused to admit that the story was false, the actor filed/initiated a lawsuit against the publisher.

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The antitrust division is set to file a lawsuit as soon as Tuesday accusing the operator of the largest US payments network of a range of anticompetitive conduct, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing the case. —Kartikay Mehrotra, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2024

Since then, similar battles have unfolded in Glendale, where a replica of the Statue of the Peace, installed by the Korean American Forum of California in 2013, prompted a pro-Japan revisionist group to file a lawsuit against the city. —Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024

On Tuesday, the Bexar County Commissioners Court in Texas voted to approve a plan to hire a company to print and distribute voter registration forms to unregistered county residents, which prompted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to file a lawsuit. —Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Sep. 2024

If the government fails to act on claims within six months, victims can choose to file a lawsuit, a process that could take years to resolve. —Brenda Goodman, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024