McTigue said he planned to review the signatures to " make legal challenges " of any legal defects not noted by county boards of election.
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This recapitulated common law jurisprudence by which evidence of fraud or other significant legal defects in the transaction such as self-dealing or other impropriety may justify overturning a rule.
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The clearest illustration of the differing strategies was in the pre-printed protest forms that each campaign prepared for use with the canvassing boards as they scrutinized each ballot envelope for legal defects.
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However, as the colony of New South Wales was not yet established, the Admiralty obtained additional letters patent to ensure that there was no legal defect in the constitution of the court.
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But ministry spokesman, Pawel Dobrowolski was quoted by PAP as saying that a special commission that investigated the issue, traced down " serious legal defects in agreements, " which Poland made with Switzerland in 1949.
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Schwartz, who handled Scott's case for free, said the legal defect should have been corrected years ago, but it was not the sort of case lawyers were willing to bring to the appellate courts because of the small sums involved.
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Dan Webb, tobacco's lead defense lawyer, said the defendants, in a petition to the 5th U . S . Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, were seeking to address " legal defects " in the state's case.
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If the appellate court does find a legal defect in the decision " below " ( i . e ., in the lower court ), it may " modify " the ruling to correct the defect, or it may nullify ( " reverse " or " vacate " ) the whole decision or any part of it.
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Working with his brother Thomas ( also a Stanford graduate and a lawyer ), Crothers identified and corrected numerous major legal defects in the terms of the university's founding grant and successfully California state constitution granting Stanford an exemption from taxation on its educational property a change which allowed Jane Stanford to donate her stock holdings to the university.
