Sentence examples for Legal contention from inspiring English sources

But improving the museum was evidently not a high priority, and finally, after much legal contention, the legacy of land and money was split.

But it's yet another bone of legal contention now being lobbed at the company.

What constitutes a valid threat posted online is a point of current legal contention in the Supreme Court.

At this point, following a string of privacy scandals and ad hoc responses, Facebook's privacy settings are labyrinthine at best; just how private "direct messaging" on Twitter really is has been a matter of legal contention when court subpoenas have demanded user information be handed over.

But in a letter sent to Mr. Kobach on Wednesday, a lawyer for the campaign, Kip F. Wainscott, wrote that both state and federal courts had rejected Mr. Montgomery's legal contentions.

If, however, Judge Jackson agrees with some of the government's legal contentions but rejects others, the sanctions against Microsoft could be less severe, prohibiting it from some practices but leaving the company intact.

Nevada has filed some 300 legal "contentions" against the Energy Department's license, each of which must be examined by a special board.

Regardless of what the Court might think of the merits of Mr. Fitzgerald's claim, the idea that pursuit of legal redress offends the doctrine of separation of powers is a frivolous contention passing as legal argument.

To that I would add that, except in exceptional circumstances, a court need not search the universe of legal argument and discuss every contention that might have been—but was not—made by the losing party.

Much legal argument revolves around the police's contention that they have the legal power to authorise their spies to start sexual relationships with people they were sent to spy on.

But there can be no contention that appellants were precluded from entering relevant evidence into the record, or precluded from presenting a pertinent legal argument.