Sentences with phrase «legal leg»

Although the publishing companies don't have a real legal leg to stand on....

Before you do that I would find out what legal leg you can stand on, be it your lease or some local law you can point out.

The more of YOU that you put into your writing — the more keenly the reader can feel YOU in your recipes — the harder is for blaggers (LOVE that term) to have a legal leg to stand on.

So while Mientkiewicz doesn't have a legal leg to stand on — «The ball ain't his,» says Finkelman — neither do the Red Sox.

Since we don't really have a legal leg to stand on, we have decided to move away from him as far as we legally can to limit his time with the kids.

Basically Bob might not have a legal leg to stand on if Mary still demands Bob's original payment to Mary after the shutdown; Sue's charitable payment being neither here or there.

Harvey Epstein of the nonprofit advocacy group Urban Justice Center, which also provides free legal services, said that in certain situations tenants living in homes without gas, power or running water because of natural disasters do have a legal leg to stand on when it comes to getting a rent break.

He called the legislation a disturbing, blatant political ploy that will make New Yorkers less safe, and one that's being proposed without a legal leg to stand on.

The grandmother may not have a legal leg to stand on with the daughter, but surely the granddaughter received the benefit of the loan and should ante up.

If he did a full on sprite and music swap and filled the world with original graphics that don't exactly look like Link, then Nintendo really wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on.

«We applaud the high court for reaffirming that Mr. Cuccinelli didn't have a legal leg to stand on in his pursuit of Mann's and other scientists» private correspondence.

I find it very hard to believe that in 2008 this would not be an accepted business practice around the world (I have no doubts that major corporations would move heaven and earth to get around it, mind you; I just can't see how they would expect to have a legal leg to stand on.)

Back in January, the FCC lost a case against Verizon — that loss meant that the FCC's basis for treating all internet traffic equally no longer had a legal leg to stand on.

You know how valuable your prospect list is, but you may not have a legal leg to stand on if a competitor gets hold of it.