"cause to proceed" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express the idea that something causes action to be taken. For example, "The findings of the report caused the government to proceed with the investigation."
The State Human Rights Division determined in August 2007 that Ms. Santos had probable cause to proceed with a legal claim against the commissioner.
A judge has ruled there is probable cause to proceed with a murder trial against a woman accused of killing her infant son 15 years ago, the state attorney's office said yesterday.
Investigations were under way on Saturday to determine if the venue and organisers had permits for such an event, and if there is cause to proceed with criminal charges against those involved.
"We believe that based on the information that the police and prosecutors had at the time, they had probable cause to proceed, and the confessions were sound," said Celeste Koeleveld, the city's executive assistant corporation counsel for public safety.
Then, last September, a report by the Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, a new fair-housing advocacy group, concluded that the commission rarely found probable cause to proceed with civil rights cases, handled fewer new cases in 2002 than usual and did not seek stiff enough penalties in cases that were settled.
The lawsuit was filed in February, and followed an investigation by the New York State Division of Human Rights, which determined that the former secretary, Auritela Santos, had probable cause to proceed with a legal claim against the commissioner, Edwin MéndEdwinntiago.
In a filing in the New York case, John D. Negroponte, the director of national intelligence, wrote that allowing the case to proceed would "cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States" because it "would enable adversaries of the United States to avoid detection". Mr. Negroponte said he was providing more detail in classified filings.
"That might also cause engagement to proceed more swiftly".
Mr. Voss said he hoped that the judge's finding would cause prosecutors to proceed cautiously in similar cases, including the continuing French criminal inquiry into the 2009 crash of an Air France jet en route from Rio de Janiero to Paris, which left 228 people dead.
The local district attorney, Robert P. McCulloch, has convened a grand jury in St . Louis Countyto determine whether probable cause exists to proceed to a criminal trail under state law.
