The governor said it was legally difficult to force people to evacuate the old and decaying buildings.
But to do so would be legally difficult, and tantamount to nationalisation.
In fact, it would be legally difficult and potentially unfair to hold anyone responsible for unforeseeable harm to civilians.
Reversing some of Mr. Obama's decisions could be legally difficult.
Luke Baker writes: "Bailing-in" bank depositors would be legally difficult and carry the risk of weakening confidence in banks across the eruozone, the officials said.
"This is a hard case — hard not in the sense that it is legally difficult or tough to crack, but in the sense that it requires us * * * to deny relief to a plaintiff for whom we have considerable sympathy.
Pushing such a person into treatment is legally difficult in most states, especially when he or she is an adult -- and the attempt itself can shatter the trust between a troubled soul and the one who is most desperate to help.
Prosecutors and investigators say building winnable cases of suspected injury leave fraud is legally difficult. .
"Wide-ranging banning orders of this sort which involve huge restrictions on freedom of speech and political expression are always going to be legally extremely difficult to justify," he says.
