Mr. Feinberg is compassionate, tough, legally creative, highly persuasive and politically shrewd.
If Mr. Bush's order had been limited to suspected foreign terrorists captured in Afghanistan or other foreign countries, it would have been more persuasive legally.
In an interview after a news conference that was filled with television cameras, Mr. Spitzer said that "an array of explanations" were offered by the record companies, "like 'we didn't really pay close attention,' " and none were "persuasive legally".
"She has ignored, if not rejected, two federal circuit courts of appeals' prior decisions, which we think are persuasive, if not legally binding," Ohlemeyer said.
This Panel has reached the conclusion that there are persuasive arguments in support of the development of a legally permissive regime with respect to assisted dying in Canada.
First, whether there is sufficient legally admissible evidence against Bush (in my opinion, there is clear and very persuasive evidence) to warrant a criminal prosecution against him now that he has left office.
(No-one expected the Court to address the state statutory question, but people did expect it to address the First Amendment question). At most, the Court's reasoning rejecting a negligence test under the federal statute might be seen as persuasive to state courts interpreting their state statutes; but only persuasive, not legally binding.
After a trial in Utica last year, Judge Michael L. Dwyer of Oneida County, who decided the case without a jury as Mr. Trebilcock wished, concluded that Mr. Trebilcock could not be held legally responsible for the crime and said he found the opinion of the expert first hired by prosecutors most persuasive.
