go to court

idiom

: to start a lawsuit

The organization is prepared to go to court to stop construction from proceeding.

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Turning to the Courts Tribes that hope to avoid Arizona’s aggressive tactics can instead go to court — an even riskier gamble that drags on and takes the decision-making out of the hands of the negotiating parties. —

Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 14 June 2023 Federal agencies almost always accept the recommendations rendered by GAO in such reviews, and if the Army did not in this case Lockheed would presumably go to court while eliciting sufficient support in Congress to block the program from going forward. —

Loren Thompson, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023 In July, concerns over the real number of spam accounts proliferating on the platform prompted Musk to try to exit the deal, sparking a legal challenge from Twitter that had been set to go to court this month. —

Tristan Bove, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2022 Elon Musk has only a few days left to buy Twitter before things will go to court. —

Joe Wituschek, BGR, 24 Oct. 2022 See all Example Sentences for go to court