He said that the contract between RKA and Relativity was entered into before Mnuchin invested in the studio, adding that RKA has "no basis whatsoever to assert a claim against Steve Mnuchin and they've articulated none".
In Power Systems, the Board inferred that the employer had acted with retaliatory animus from the fact that the employer lacked "a reasonable basis upon which to assert" that its suit had merit.
Five American states have passed legislation to provide executors and other parties with a legal basis on which to assert authority over digital assets, and others are considering similar rules, but these laws vary widely in what they cover (the oldest of them covers only e-mail).
"There is no basis for Netflix to assert that issues with respect to playback... are attributable solely to the Verizon network," Verizon wrote.
"There's simply no basis for federal agencies to assert the attorney-client privilege during an OSC investigation," Special Counsel Carolyn Lerner said at the hearing.
The first challenge was a strictly legal one: persuading any justices who might be inclined to intervene in this state election law dispute that there is a plausible basis for the Supreme Court to assert its jurisdiction.
George Yin, the former executive director of the Joint Committee on Taxation, said in an interview Wednesday that he doesn't believe there is any legal basis for the White House to assert executive privilege in attempting to block the release of tax returns.
Many rival moralities and political systems – most of them, to date, illiberal – have attempted to assert a basis in science.
"I have never had a Twitter account", he insisted, and "have never sold a story to Hola!", so Cohen had been wrong to assert (on the basis of a Daily Mail article, which recycled allegations in the Spanish press) that he had tweeted about the affair and been paid for the photo-feature.
Therefore, unlike Mises, Rothbard attempted to assert an objective, natural law basis for the free market.
