In notice pleading, the same plaintiff bringing suit would not face dismissal for lack of the exact legal term, so long as the claim itself was legally actionable.
The lawsuit (under the United States' Alien Tort Statute) also established forced prostitution and forced impregnation as legally actionable acts of genocide.
The letters were careful not to make any legally actionable claims, instead containing material that was impertinent or absurd in order to ridicule Maxwell.
In the second context, it is used after it has been shown that a defendant had copied to determine if what had been copied is legally actionable or amounts to misappropriation.
Only when a work rises to a level of "substantial similarity" does it infringe to the point of being legally actionable.
He begins to haunt Sam in ways that menace but aren't legally actionable or can't be traced to him.
Bruno Mars: wondering if the usurpation of his pompadour might be legally actionable.
Prejudice which is, I might remind you, legally actionable.
Moreover, Anita Hill has never alleged that she was the victim of legally actionable harassment.
With the media today, expect link-bait articles with titles like "WHO: iPhone Causes Cancer" Sorry, that would be legally actionable.