Sentence examples for procedural technicality from inspiring English sources

"The ruling hinges on a procedural technicality," he said in a statement.

Tina Burjaliani, a deputy justice minister, spoke of a "procedural technicality" that could be overcome.

The strike was, in fact, due to start on Thursday, but the district sued for a delay on a procedural technicality and won.

I believe that assumption is what led the appellate court to dismiss my case on a contrived procedural technicality, without consideration of the substantive legal arguments.

After judges issue final orders and judgments, losing defendants often ask courts to make a determination that may seem to be a mere procedural technicality, but is, instead, a new battleground for injunctive litigation.

As we stressed in Phillips v. United States, supra, these cases approach this three-judge statute as a procedural technicality and not as the embodiment of a more or less broadly phrased social policy the enforcement of which requires a generous regard for some underlying social purpose.

I especially look at decisions that might seem to be procedural technicalities.

California's move is being challenged in court by physician groups on procedural technicalities.

These reversals are largely on procedural technicalities; they do not indicate the factual innocence of the accused.

Juvenile courts have jealously guarded their prerogative to mete out justice unimpeded by procedural technicalities and have surrendered this control only with the greatest reluctance.

The system exalts the principle of justice which holds that the function of the courts is to decide cases on their true merits and not on procedural technicalities.