The proposed restoration is not without its own legal snags, however, officials say.

Experts cautioned that Sky's programming plans could still hit several regulatory and legal snags.

Officials in the United States face a significant legal snag before they can bring to trial a man accused of killing a Buffalo doctor who provided abortions.

Experts predict countless legal snags that would land before the immigration judges.

But that album was not without its legal snags.

That's not the only legal snag Judge Birss noticed.

Mr. Spitzer said the new move was based on concrete facts about changes at the plants, and thus should avoid some of the legal snags that have hindered other efforts.

I couldn't shed the fear that it wasn't really happening, that at any minute, some legal snag would get me hauled back to prison.

The state began concerted efforts to move Medicaid recipients into managed care plans in 1991, but the program's growth was slowed for years by legal, political and financial snags.