The phrase "prosecute against" is not a correct or usable phrase.
Instead, you would want to use the phrase "prosecute [someone]" or "prosecute [a case]" depending on the context. For example, "The district attorney plans to prosecute the defendant."
It is to be observed that in the cases referred to the court did not deny that a sovereign state, in virtue of its existence as such, would not have possessed the inherent power to prosecute against another state the claims of its citizens, and that such a prosecution by it would have constituted a controversy between states in the international significance of those words.
Except for cases of hard drugs used as stimulants, most countries do not prosecute against doping, and the issue was the subject of intense negotiations before the Games between Italian and Olympic organizers.
"If we had a case that we felt we could prosecute and my experts felt we could prosecute against Harvey Weinstein, we would've," Vance told CBS.
Additionally, the reauthorization provides limited jurisdiction to tribes to be able to prosecute against Indian and non-Indian offenders in domestic violence cases.
This will doubtless not be the last case the feds try to prosecute against a provider who is scrupulously following state and local law (the government of Oakland was fully behind Harborside, it bears mentioning, throughout their entire legal odyssey), but it certainly was a case with a very high profile.
Many on the Board are hoping those protections, which range from prohibiting the much-loathed practice of dual-tracking to making it easier to prosecute against financial crimes, come in the form of the California's passing the Homeowners Bill of Rights proposed by state Attorney General Kamala Harris.
The Federal Circuit in its opinion identified only eight patent-infringement suits prosecuted against the States in the 110 years between 1880 and 1990.
The universally received opinion is that no suit can be commenced or prosecuted against the United States; that the judiciary act does not authorize such suits.
"It was the type of case that would not be prosecuted against anyone else," Bob Woodward wrote in "Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate" (1999).
"The first American Revolution, as we know, was prosecuted against King George III and his out-of-control Parliament," she said in Goshen in 2009, according to a news account.
There are lots of recent examples, like the bogus charges brought against Alexei Navalny, the heroic investigative blogger, and the posthumous case currently being prosecuted against, believe it or not, Sergei Magnitsky.
