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legal remedy

American  
[lee-guhl re-mi-dee] / ˈli gəl ˈrɛ mɪ di /

noun

  • legal remedies
    plural
  1. a way to provide relief or restitution for an injury or harm that is enforced by a court.


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“The investigation has been flawed from the outset,” Kelley wrote, saying he would explore “every legal remedy to address this gross injustice.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

“It is with these breathtaking facts in mind that Mr. Kelly asks this Court for an extraordinary legal remedy: his release from Bureau of Prisons custody.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 13, 2025

But he expressed reservations that the deported migrants had no legal remedy to contest whether they were gang members or not.

From BBC Mar. 21, 2025

While it seems like an unusual legal remedy, there have been comparable situations, said Samuel Issacharoff, a New York University law professor.

From New York Times Jun. 13, 2024

The result had oozed forth gradually, like the discovery that your neighbor has set up an unpleasant kind of manufacture which will be permanently under your nostrils without legal remedy.

From Middlemarch by George Eliot

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