The phrase "actionable claim" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a statement or assertion can be acted upon or has practical implications, often in legal or business discussions.
Example: "The lawyer presented an actionable claim that could lead to a significant settlement for the client."
Alternatives: "enforceable claim" or "valid claim".
While we express no view as to whether Rescuecom can prove a Lanham Act violation, an actionable claim is adequately alleged in its pleadings.
If we assume, with Holmes, that a contract is a promise cast in the alternative, it follows that every legally actionable claim for damages will be premised upon behavior that is also subject to moral blame, since a claim for damages can arise only if the promisor fails to keep one or the other of his two commitments.
For example, if in a competition for public office, the best candidate is not chosen, he has an actionable claim against the appointment committee, but he cannot say that he has been deprived of something that was his.
"I have an actionable claim," he said.
On appeal, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Society of Professional Journalists, the American Society of News Editors, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, and law professors and First Amendment experts Eugene Volokh and Glenn Reynolds, among others, filed amicus briefs in support of the defendants saying that there was no actionable claim of libel.
This pact defines the criteria that allow members to have actionable claims to the receipt of a share of the common stock.
This classification might be a reasonable standard in the 1960s; however, educated individuals understand that the use of these types of communications, gestures, or behaviors can lead to actionable claims.
As for the disclosure of the S.E.C. inquiry, the court said that it alone was not an actionable securities fraud claim.
Despite the fact that the company allegedly knew about the "increased rate in injection use, [it] failed to disclose to investors that it faced a serious risk of regulatory action, including removal of the drug from the market," forming the basis for an actionable Section 11 claim.
The Fourth Circuit ruled that same-sex Title VII claims were actionable only if the accused harasser was homosexual and could therefore be motivated by sexual desire.
See Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U. S. 662, 675 (2009) (assuming without deciding that a First Amendment free exercise claim is actionable under Bivens); Bush v. Lucas, 462 U. S. 367, 368 (1983) (refusing to extend Bivens to a First Amendment speech claim involving federal employment).
