Sentence examples for was not actionable from inspiring English sources

The court rejected the doctrine of Rylands v. Fletcher, L.R. 3 H.L. 330, and held that the leakage of gasoline was not actionable.

In a letter to Clearwire's board, Sprint said that Dish's tender offer of $4.40 a share was not "actionable," since it broke an existing shareholder agreement at the wireless network operator.

If this intelligence was not "actionable," working-level officials said at the time and today, it was hard for them to imagine how any intelligence on Bin Laden in Afghanistan would meet the standard.

2. The casting of light of about intensity of moonlight 832 feet onto screen of drive-in open air moving picture theater outside limits of city by corporation operation a night horse race track where there were numerous floodlights, so as to interfere with proper showing of moving pictures, was not actionable "trespass".

Even the judges holding the highest judicial stations in that country have felt constrained to decide, that to say of a married female that she was a liar, an infamous wretch, and that she had been all but seduced by a notorious libertine, was not actionable without averring and proving special damage.

Those two district courts ruled that the defendant's conduct was not actionable under §§ 32 & 43(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § § 1114 & 1125(a), even assuming that conduct caused likelihood of trademark confusion, because the defendant had not made a "use in commerce" of the plaintiff's mark, within the definition of that phrase set forth in § 45 of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1127.

I could understand calling him in and taking him to the woodshed for a day, but — from what I saw — it wasn't actionable.

Inspirational as it may have been, the all-encompassing vision of "health for all" just wasn't actionable.

Since Revlon, we have stated that differing treatment of various bidders is not actionable when such action reasonably relates to achieving the best price available for the stockholders.

Even before 1591, when William Lambarde complained that his client had been "baited, and bitten with libels and slanders that be not actionable," that word has meant "subject to an action at law," legalese for "you have just furnished me grounds for a lawsuit".

"Thus, the Dish proposal is not actionable".