Sentence examples for legal assertion from inspiring English sources

The NSA claims that provision justifies its bulk US phone records collection, a legal assertion that is hotly contested, but its application is far broader.

The legal assertion at the core of Google's business plan is its purported right to scan millions of copyrighted books without payment to or permission from the copyright owners.

He also requested that Gibson Dunn attorney Randy Mastro, who led the investigation, remove his "demonstrably false legal assertion that an adverse inference can be drawn from Mr. Stepien's invocation of the Fifth Amendment in response to the subpoena of a legislative committee".

Having lawyers challenge novel legal assertions in these secret proceedings would result in better judicial outcomes.

One is the contradictions between the "technical and legal" assertions — both in the S.E.C. filings and before the Massachusetts ballot commission — and the plain language of what Romney has said on the campaign trail about having no connection at all to Bain.

As we describe below, the authors [ 1] make important legal assertions that are either misleading or simply incorrect.

"The collision between the state and federal schemes," the state's legal complaint asserted, "creates an immediate, actual controversy involving antagonistic assertions of right".

Unsurprisingly, since neither children in prison nor their parents are typically in a position to start legal action, his assertion has never been challenged in court.

Dr. Farley said the city's lawyers "feel quite confident" that the soda restrictions would withstand any legal challenges – an assertion that would almost certainly be tested by the soda industry if the plan is approved during the board's vote, in September.

The health commissioner, Dr. Thomas A. Farley, said the city's lawyers "feel quite confident" that the restrictions would withstand any legal challenge — an assertion that would almost certainly be tested by the soda industry if the plan is approved by the board.

Trolls, or their more diplomatic legal title, Patent Assertion Entities (PAE), are typically shell organizations with no other interests but to hoard intellectual property and frighten fragile small businesses into legal settlements.