Like the old empire, the union has become preoccupied with legality and procedure at the expense of participation and effectiveness.
The truth is that if women's feelings after abortion were to determine the legality of the procedure, those who want to ban abortion would be sorely disappointed.
Mr. Kempf failed in a motion to challenge the legality of the procedure used to choose the five-judge panel hearing the case.
"From what I have managed to find out up until now, the legality of the procedure itself should not be disputed," Mr. Kostunica said early this morning after hours of meetings with government and army officials.
The wonky gray area of body-modification-licensing means that the legality of the procedure in some states is dubious as is, but using any numbing agents puts these artists straight into "practicing medicine without a license" territory, meaning my finger felt like it had been turned into one of those exploding cartoon cigars.
Today, American and Chinese officials seem to be describing two different occurrences, with clashing versions of who caused the collision, of the legality of the procedures followed by the spy plane before its emergency landing and of China's right, at this point, to scour the plane and hold its crew for interrogation.
Let's leave the legality of those procedures to the courts.
The ruling is a complete repudiation of every argument MERS has made about the legality of its procedures.
Each assembly was presided over by a single Roman Magistrate, and as such, it was the presiding magistrate who made all decisions on matters of procedure and legality.
And the "wrong" that I felt pulsing as I read about the shooting -- and, justified or unjustified, police killings have been happening this year at the rate of almost three a day -- had nothing to do with procedure or legality: whether the shooting was "justified".
The UK does not have a formal written constitution, so some lawyers have been dismissive of the legality of legal intervention, while others have been pressing for clearer guidance on the constitutional procedure.
