"The suits are valid and are being brought to vindicate legal wrongs, under both federal and state law.

Vindicate, which has been used in English since at least the mid-16th century, comes from a form of the Latin verb vindicare, meaning “to set free, avenge, or lay claim to.”

VINDICATE definition: 1. to prove that what someone said or did was right or true, after other people thought it was…. Learn more.

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vindicate somebody to prove that somebody is not guilty when they have been accused of doing something wrong or illegal; to prove that somebody is right about something. New evidence …

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