Oversight of congressional committee procedures should not be based upon such frivolous grounds.
Jibrin Ibrahim, a political analyst with the Centre for Democracy and Development, said Nigeria's security agencies had forced the delay on "frivolous" grounds.
Conservative MP Sir Peter Bottomley has been particularly outspoken in his criticism of the flaws in the leasehold sector, calling on lawyers to stop playing the system to delay proceedings on frivolous grounds and at extra expense to leaseholders.
"The very fact that the machinery of criminal law is set in motion against citizens on frivolous grounds amounts to harassment that is inadequately mitigated by the eventual discharge or acquittal," Ms. Singhal's petition argues.
41 Thus there is avoided abuse of the writ by repeated attempts to secure a hearing on frivolous grounds, and repeated adjudications of the same issues by courts of coordinate powers.
Your March 21 editorial on Senator Slade Gorton's efforts to take away Indian tribes' immunity from lawsuits argues for continued immunity on the ground that it "shields governments from being sued into extinction". That overlooks the real problem, which is our out-of-control legal system, in which anyone can sue any individual or organization for arbitrary sums of money on frivolous grounds.
Mr. Low-Beer said the Purdue Pharma case is one of a number of cases the department plans to bring against drug manufacturers, which, he said, often try to extend their patents on "frivolous" grounds in order to keep control of the drug.
But what I think the RMV should have done was stood its ground, gone to court, and then asked the judge to dismiss the suit on frivolous grounds.
"Large companies like Disney are perceived to have deep pockets and we're obviously sued on frivolous grounds fairly frequently," he said.
Justice Taylor overturned the stay of execution, finding their arguments "frivolous and not grounded in the law".
And most recently, e-mail accounts of academics have been broken into on what must be considered frivolous — or, better, dubious — grounds.
