There are conflicting legal opinions about the likely success of such a claim in the courts.
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Keep legal opinions and tax memoranda in a file separate from accounting and financial statements.
That assertion ran into a core principle of the judiciary that courts don't sit to issue advisory legal opinions.
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Sky had an office on Wall Street, a trading floor, Compliance office, board of directors, legal opinions, real employees, etc.
Both sides have argued their case before Congress and in the media, pointing to old statutes and tossing around legal opinions.
Keep legal opinions and memos on tax matters in a separate file.
He recalls that the Phipps deal was brought to the tribe by a shelter promoter, who presented legal opinions saying it would work.
Well known lawyers like Catherine Hanaway, a former U.S. Attorney in Missouri, penned legal opinions that were seen as supportive of the industry.
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The grand mufti, the most senior official issuing Islamic legal opinions, declared on television that circumcision is forbidden, repeating his words three times for emphasis.
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At the center of this cyclone of legal opinions is Digg's chief executive, Jay Adelson, who says he has no idea about Digg's legal future.
But PokerStars says it has received legal opinions from several U.S law firms stating it is not violating U.S. law and the feds have never challenged this position.
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Legal opinions and Orders often contain gems in their footnotes.
Businessmen have given only cautious approval, while awaiting legal opinions.
For today's hearing, for instance, the Judiciary Committee asked the Justice Department to allow Goldsmith to discuss his classified legal opinions at a separate close-door session, but the request was denied.
Both legal opinions have endorsed the position of the government of Cyprus that no direct trade can be performed with the occupied areas without the consent of the member state concerned.
But there could be more flexibility on other long-standing Judiciary Committee demands, for example, for the legal opinions justifying the NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program, or the legal opinions justifying coercive questioning of detainees.
Any legal or normative system which is not articulated and enforced within a political structure of codified laws, procedures, courts, binding legal opinions providing precedence, and effective enforcement mechanisms will, by definition, lack Transparency.
Meanwhile, PokerStars and Full Tilt continued to operate in the U.S. and claimed that their U.S. operations did not violate U.S. law, pointing to legal opinions the companies had received from big shot U.S. lawyers.
PokerStars, based in the Isle of Man, has long maintained that it offers for-money online poker play to U.S. players in accordance with legal opinions from several U.S. law firms that state it is not violating U.S. law.
Brennan's nomination won approval Tuesday by the Senate Intelligence Committee after the White House broke a lengthy impasse by agreeing to give lawmakers access to top-secret legal opinions justifying the use of lethal drone strikes against al-Qaida suspects overseas.
PokerStars, the biggest online poker company, has for years insisted that legal opinions it has received from several U.S. law firms state that the Isle of Man company is not breaking any U.S. law, including the wire act of 1961 that Dikshit pleaded guilty to violating.
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The labor lawyers they had retainer agreements with ventured far from their area of legal expertise to offer opinions regarding the propriety of investment consultant conduct.
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Her concurring opinions have established legal boundaries on several major issues, such as striking down a state-mandated "moment of silence" in schools and reducing obstacles to capital punishment.
Putting aside the obvious judgmental purpose they serve, they force students to coalesce a huge amount of information, to distill theories and form their own opinions on critical legal issues.
Remember legal, tax and accounting opinions, pension consultant recommendations, portfolio manager and broker testimonials, all play a role in marketing financial products, not just slick brochures and advertising produced by the money manager itself.
This theme has received a full airing in media commentary, congressional hearings, legal scholarship and lower court judicial opinions.
He makes up for a lack of formal legal training by inhaling turgid court opinions and chatting up lawyers from both sides.
Asset-backed securities are incredibly complex structured investments that, before they could be sold to the public, required myriad legal, regulatory, tax and other opinions and approvals.
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