These terms captured the statutes relevant to this analysis.
It was based upon where we could prove interception had occurred under the relevant statute.
After Patrick J. Sullivan, a Manhattan parent on the panel, pointed out the relevant statute, the city scrambled to call an emergency meeting of the panel for Friday, just hours before the expected Council vote.
"Do you think that was just carelessness on the court's part?" she asked of the expansive language she had used, including the phrase "any relevant statute or regulation".
The relevant statute is Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act, which says that any business with assets exceeding a million dollars and more than five hundred "shareholders of record" must register its securities with the S.E.C.
What Holder holds is that it's not just any assistance that is illegal; it's "material support," which includes, says the relevant statute, "any property, tangible or intangible, or service, including currency or monetary instruments or financial securities.
This was because the judge's instructions to the jury, which were diluted to reflect the prosecutors' (erroneous) interpretation of the relevant statute, failed to ask the jurors to decide whether Arthur Andersen knew it was doing something illegal.
"While it may be true that auction houses commonly withhold the names of consignors," Justice Peter B. Skelos of the appellate division said in his ruling, "this court is governed not by the practice in the trade, but by the relevant statute".
Mr. Rowan and other former prosecutors said the most relevant statute is probably the prohibition on knowingly providing "material support or resources" to a foreign terrorist group, a formal designation by the State Department that includes both Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba.
The relevant statute says someone like Mr. Akin can withdraw "pursuant to a court order, which, except for good cause shown by the election authority in opposition thereto, shall be freely given upon application by the candidate to the circuit court in the county of such candidate's residence".
