legal technicality

At the same time, the church used a legal technicality to win a court order.

"You're going to get involved in a lot of legal technicalities."

It seemed there was some legal technicality because of his military status.

Perhaps that's because we've turned what used to be moral questions into legal technicalities.

The trouble is, the term turns on a legal technicality.

If your case will stand only on a legal technicality, then you probably don't want a jury.

In fact, the court said, because of a legal technicality, the state has had no flag for 94 years.

It'll take more than just legal technicalities to satisfy them.

The court ruled against the scientists on the basis of a legal technicality.

But a legal technicality allowed the release of the vessel.

This case has been bogged down by some legal technicalities.

"There are a lot of hidden traps and legal technicalities."

The conviction was later overturned, however, on a legal technicality.

The company took steps in 1985 to make a public stock offering but it failed at the last moment because of a legal technicality.

No one is throwing widows out on the street over a legal technicality.

The submission is the ultimate use of the legal technicality concept.

All works in progress had ceased due to complicated legal technicalities.

When that fails (and it rarely does) the next step is legal technicalities.

That is a war machine and you are seeking to confront it with legal technicalities?

This is not a mere legal technicality as some commentators have suggested.

We came very close but unfortunately some legal technicalities kept any deals from going through."

The first charges were dismissed on a legal technicality.

He goes on to discuss the legal technicalities of opening a new school, licensing, and so forth.

Each week, the black-robed judge is forced by a legal technicality to let a criminal go.

Assume she's telling the truth about her career, and set aside the legal technicalities of the rent laws.