The phrase "assert a violation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is claiming or stating that a rule, law, or agreement has been broken.
Example: "The lawyer was quick to assert a violation of the client's rights during the trial."
Alternatives: "claim a breach" or "declare an infraction."
They may revise their complaints so as to assert a "violation of a duty" by one or more corporate officers or employees, even though this does not legally strengthen their case, in order to attempt to come within the language of Sections 102 and 109.
When we are urged to grant standing to a criminal defendant to assert a violation, not of his own constitutional rights but of someone else's, we cannot but give weight to practical difficulties such as those foreseen by Mr. Justice Harlan in the quoted language.
The federal district court in Miami ruled that the Republicans had failed to assert a violation of federal constitutional rights and therefore refused to intervene in the decision of state officials.
"It could include espionage, but it could also include negligence, inadvertence, or something else.... Section 811 does not assert a violation of criminal law".
Asserting a violation of the Confrontation Clause and, indeed, the unconstitutionality thereunder of § 2945.49, the defense objected to the use of the transcript.
Accordingly, the complaint is dismissed to the extent that it asserts a violation of Mannion's exclusive right to prepare derivative works.
A federal statute, 42 United States Code section 1988, provides that attorneys are entitled to recover compensation for their fees if they successfully represent a plaintiff asserting a violation of his or her constitutional or civil rights.
This subsection does not bar a consumer then in default on the obligation from asserting a violation of this subchapter as an original action, or as a defense or counterclaim to an action to collect amounts owed by the consumer brought by a person liable under this subchapter.
While fame is not a prerequisite to assert a claim for a violation of your right of publicity, the more famous you are, the more the use of your name or likeness is worth.
Id., at 261, 80 S.Ct., at 731. 2 Adoption of the so-called "target" theory advanced by petitioners would in effect permit a defendant to assert that a violation of the Fourth Amendment rights of a third party entitled him to have evidence suppressed at his trial.
Gareth Peirce, Abu Qatada's lawyer, said: "It has always been astonishing that this country has fought long and hard to assert that a violation of such a fundamental legal principle should take place.
