"proceed against" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to mean to take legal action against someone. For example: The lawyer decided to proceed against the defendant for fraud.
The district attorney's office said the case would proceed against him and the two other defendants.
"A court is ready to proceed against him legally, and a jail is also ready".
This ruling allows the Paula Jones harassment case to proceed against him.
By June, a Presidential decision on how to proceed against Saddam should have been made.
Both lawyers said their clients were saddened by the government's decision to proceed against them.
After a review, prosecutors said they had insufficient grounds to proceed against him.
In 1940, uncertain about how to proceed against Britain, he turned to war against the Soviet Union.
Having consulted Ahithophel about his plans to proceed against David, Absalom then sought advice from Hushai, another of David's counselors.
When Napoleon met with Alexander at Tilsit, he gave the latter a free hand to proceed against Sweden.
The Supreme Court smoothed his path, by allowing a civil suit to proceed against a president while in office.
The tie vote will permit a suit to proceed against Warner-Lambert, the maker of a diabetes drug, Rezulin.
