How to Use legal proceedings in a Sentence

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  • Pitt and Jolie have been locked in a fraught web of legal proceedings since 2016.
    Cheri Mossburg and Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 17 July 2024
  • The genie is out of the bottle with this and all the recent court and legal proceedings ruling against the NCAA.
    Leonard Armato, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • How this design missed the mark is a question that will be parsed throughout the legal proceedings.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
  • My – my own legal proceedings, which by the way are crumbling, all these charges against me have been crumbling.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Their case has been held up by legal proceedings for years, with no trial date set.
    Molly Nagle, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Since the shooting, the film and Baldwin have been ensnared in legal proceedings.
    Kristian Burt, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The firm expects to engage legal proceedings in London’s High Court sometime in the weeks to come.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2023
  • The cameras in the room were turned off to protect their identities and privacy, but the rest of the legal proceedings will be livestreamed.
    NBC News, 10 July 2024
  • The legal proceedings in New York could stretch out for months — or years — for Trump, who is hoping to win back the presidency in 2024.
    Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
  • But a state court blocked the six-week law, and legal proceedings are continuing.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The fate of the deal rests on the outcome of the various appeals and legal proceedings with regulators.
    Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
  • As the legal proceedings continue, the future of Graceland hangs in the balance.
    Roland Oputa, The Mercury News, 30 May 2024
  • According to Tribune de Genève, Puech has already begun the legal proceedings to make the man his heir.
    Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The building had been preserved for legal proceedings against the shooter, as well as a school deputy who failed to intervene in the shooting, but the cases already wrapped up.
    Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 30 May 2024
  • In those legal proceedings, Kennedy framed his case as one of a humble football coach whose quiet prayers were squelched by a hostile school district.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Linton’s mental state, both before and during the crash, plays a central role in her legal proceedings.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2024
  • Once Hollywood’s most glamorous power couple, Pitt and Jolie have been locked in a fraught web of legal proceedings since 2016.
    Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 20 June 2024
  • They are still involved in legal proceedings and have mostly faced setbacks.
    Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Amid the subsequent legal proceedings, Lewinsky was hounded by the public and the paparazzi.
    Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
  • Under the proposal, a judge could decide on a case-by-case basis where and when to allow the media to observe legal proceedings.
    Claire Fahy, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Emotions tend to run high in family law, and legal proceedings can be complex.
    Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The case has now been transferred to the Eastern District of Missouri, where further legal proceedings will continue in the coming weeks.
    Nik Popli, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The legal proceedings could take years, but the court in the Hague could rule in the coming weeks on possible emergency measures, including a ceasefire.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2024
  • However, both Jolie and Pitt would have been free to make claims about each other in their legal proceedings, such as their divorce and child custody cases.
    Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
  • Her ruling is the latest bombshell in Trump’s legal proceedings.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 15 July 2024
  • His newspaper and the U.S. had denounced the legal proceedings, which saw only two days of hearings, as a sham and have denied the allegations.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The legal proceedings could also put restrictions on his speech and conduct, as Chutkan warned Friday.
    Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Aidala has waged a pressure campaign against the DA’s office in public and in court to have his client stay at Bellevue’s prisoner ward for the duration of the legal proceedings against him.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The state attorney asked a court to hold her until legal proceedings have concluded.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
  • After months of paralysis, the dispute eventually headed to court, where the glacial pace of legal proceedings seemed likely to tie the film up until after the election.
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024

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