The League also hired E.E. Kirk as an attorney to provide some legal leverage against the law and its enforcement.

I wonder if not this is what the lobbyists are using as a scarecrow to get the legal leverage they wants.

And the best legal leverage for that has been the long-ignored Indian water rights and stream requirements for bringing back endangered fish.

"I'd love to organize as many of them as we could, but we don't have the legal leverage," Mr. Hill said of the recipients.

He said contractors have avoided getting licenses because "they don't want to be subject to the legal leverage the department has to force them to make restitution" for bad performance.

But if the new law is passed, the E.P.A. would lose its legal leverage to persuade the corps to adopt an alternative for clearing shipping channels.

During her volunteer work, Morrow became interested in political and legal leverage.

At the same time, wherever possible, the court uses its legal leverage to link offenders with social services-drug treatment, health care, education-to help them address their problems.

That language gives the authority legal leverage to recover all the money paid under the contract if the "inducement" turns out to have been fraudulent.

Personally I think this is all about legal leverage, definately for Apple and Google.