To name a couple in the legal context specifically: * under the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a civil plaintiff who doesn't show up to trial has their c

To name a couple in the legal context specifically: * under the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a civil plaintiff who doesn't show up to trial has their case dismissed for failure to prosecute [0][1] * a claim of malicious prosecution can be brought based on an unjustified criminal or civil claim (though some jurisdictions do call the tort "abuse of process" if it's based on a civil claim)[2] [0] https://definitions.uslegal.com/f/failure-to-prosecute/ https://definitions.uslegal.com/f/failure-to-prosecute/ [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_41 https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_41 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_prosecution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_prosecution