"vindicate their rights" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that someone is defending their rights or privileges, usually by taking some kind of legal action. For example: "The victims of the accident took the case to court to vindicate their rights."
This decision gives Mr. Vance and Mr. Ertel a chance to prove their case and vindicate their rights.
Today the Palestinian people lack effective courts of law and have no means to defend and vindicate their rights.
This will give our clients the chance to pursue the allegations in court and a chance to vindicate their rights".
She allowed the class-action status because "the vast majority of New Yorkers who are unlawfully stopped will never bring suit to vindicate their rights".
None of this bodes well for the judicial system or for those seeking to vindicate their rights through the courts, whether they have a lawyer or not.
"The vast majority of New Yorkers who are unlawfully stopped will never bring suit to vindicate their rights," Judge Scheindlin wrote.
Phone lines there were busy all day, and hundreds of voters traveled downtown in person, spending hours trying to vindicate their right to vote.
In the 17th century a jury endured two days' imprisonment without food or water at the hands of an overbearing judge in order to vindicate their right to return a true verdict, Grieve recalled.
"This settlement should send a very clear message to remind all employers and employees alike that the E.E.O.C. is here to vindicate their right to be free from discrimination in the workplace".
The first Continental Congress in 1774 justified its rebellion on the ground that the colonists were doing "as Englishmen, their ancestors in like cases have usually done, for asserting and vindicating their rights and liberties".
PLSNY argues that the law "favors one class of New York citizens, DOCS employees, over another, all other citizens". See Brief of PLSNY et al. at 7. A holding that the New York law is constitutional, PLSNY argues, would prevent civil rights victims from vindicating their rights under § 1983 and would thus contravene congressional intent.
