It'll take more than just legal technicalities to satisfy them.
The trouble is, the term turns on a legal technicality.
The court ruled against the scientists on the basis of a legal technicality.
Perhaps that's because we've turned what used to be moral questions into legal technicalities.
It seemed there was some legal technicality because of his military status.
At the same time, the church used a legal technicality to win a court order.
If your case will stand only on a legal technicality, then you probably don't want a jury.
But a legal technicality allowed the release of the vessel.
"You're going to get involved in a lot of legal technicalities."
In fact, the court said, because of a legal technicality, the state has had no flag for 94 years.