I mean, do you think the '64 Civil Rights Act or the ADA for that matter were just overreaches and that business shouldn't be bothered by people with a basis in law to sue them for redress?
"FEMA's apparent decision to change the eligibility standard, without any basis in law to do so, could be depriving thousands of the assistance they need to keep their homes, pay their bills and feed their families," Mr. Corzine said in a letter to Mr. Allbaugh on Tuesday.
"Nigerians who unlawfully occupied an offshore drilling platform and held some 200 Nigerian and expatriate workers hostage for three days have no basis in fact or in law to claim that their rights were violated when the Nigerian military restored order".
There is simply no established basis in international law to justify characterizing Israel as an occupier of the disputed land in the West Bank and Gaza.
But Molly Watkins, a spokeswoman for the board, said, "While the board was certainly sympathetic to Mr. Badillo's plight, there was really no basis in the law to draw a distinction between invalidated matching claims and claims that will count toward the threshold".
Commission regulations limit such penalties to $130,000 per violation, Ms. Sommers said, adding "there is no arguable basis in law or fact to support finding anywhere near" the number of violations that would be required to produce a $12 million penalty.
But in 1998 he signed an agreement with the board saying that his conduct "constitutes a reasonable basis in law and fact to justify the disciplinary action".
George J. Terwilliger III, a Washington lawyer representing Consortium de Réalisation, said Thursday, "There is no basis in law or fact to, in effect, undo that transaction by now transferring the profits from those who took the risk on the bond portfolio to those who 10 years ago accepted $3 billion to be rid of it".
Only three rights had any basis in law: these were the right to consent; the right to complain and the right to access medical records.
No, Your Honor, because I think there was no basis in law for the trial court to do that until after the plaintiff had carried its burden of proving that there was some necessity to do so.
"The lord advocate and the US attorney general have recently agreed that there is a proper basis in law in Scotland and the United States to entitle Scottish and US investigators to treat two Libyans as suspects in the continuing investigation into the bombing of flight Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie," a spokesman said.
