For the Pentagon, these conflicts are more than just a legal headache.
The last six months had been one legal headache after another, not to mention the damage done to her soul.
Indeed the possibility of different companies sharing assets caused a number of legal headaches.
In practice, this means that the seller pays the buyer to take over ownership - thereby offloading legal headaches and financial risk.
The other legal headaches stem from the owners' inability to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement with the players.
Still, despite the better times of late, some legal and regulatory headaches linger for the firms of the two analysts.
And recently, in a few scattered cases across the country, rug-ranking has created legal headaches for corporations.
The company's current legal and public-relations headaches leave me, personally, in an awkward position.
Still, the new "mitigation" measures do represent a shift that could raise all sorts of legal and technical headaches for network operators.
E-mail correspondence has created technical, legal and practical headaches unimaginable only a few years ago.