"Unless you find abuse, these kinds of plans are perfectly lawful," he said.

"That is perfectly lawful," Mr. Feldberg told Judge Timony in March.

Much of the equipment is perfectly lawful to own; in these cases, only the misuse of the equipment to pirate signals is prohibited.

More far reaching efforts have been held perfectly lawful under the antitrust laws.

More to the point, to the extent that we follow its meaning in real usage, the 'end run' is a perfectly lawful play.

It is perfectly lawful, for instance, to tape a television program to watch later.

It's a right to counsel issue - the right to counsel to do a perfectly lawful act.

They entail the generalised monitoring of Internet users' activities, including perfectly lawful ones.

"That is perfectly lawful," Mr. Feldberg insisted.

But they added that Ms. Martin could have achieved much of what she had set out to accomplish through more subtle, quite common and perfectly lawful techniques.