Sentences with phrase «legal thicket»

It took ESD several weeks to wade through the legal thicket erected by SUNY Poly — the projects were not managed by the school, but by two affiliated non-profit entities — before authority lawyers in November said they would invade SUNY Poly and try to salvage its existing partnerships.

There are hurdles and a legal thicket.

America has set up a legal thicket of «Keep Out» signs — which is both tragic and suicidal.

Not exact matches

Barnett contends that the criticisms of a strong patent - rights system overlook recent empirical evidence and have overestimated the impact and scope of problems including «patent trolls» (firms that own patents but do not manufacture products), «royalty stacks» (the total demands of multiple intellectual property holders for remuneration leave too little revenue left for the manufacturer), and «patent thickets» (complex and conflicting legal claims that increase transaction costs for manufacturers).

I am in favour of plain - language drafting in principle, though not necessarily as a legal requirement, but one person's plain language can still be another person's thicket.

Rather, justifications, if offered at all, leave behind the realm of the legal and descend into the thicket of «morals», «national interest», «religion», «history» or «race».

In light of these complications and hassles, it is not too surprising that a great many lawyers opt not to get into the thicket of offering limited retainer services (also known as unbundled legal services).

Even with the issues of confidentiality, potential client conflicts and the thicket of NDAs that lawyers must deal with, these issues are can be damaging in the legal profession.

The very fact that we have inter-provincial inconsistency here is enough to my mind to conclude that we do need more scrutiny of these matters before they are put to trial, from legal minds familiar with these systems and able to move with ease through this «religious thicket.»

The legal part, however, is a little difficult to spot among the rather paternalistic and heavily regulated thicket of prohibitions.