Another risk taken by the defensive team in issuing a base on balls is that since intentional balls must be pitched in a legal manner, they can legally become wild pitches or passed balls.

Chief Richard Akinjide, a former Nigerian Attorney-General and Minister of Justice who had been a leading member of Nigeria's legal team, described the decision as " 50 % international law and 50 % international politics ", " blatantly biased and unfair ", " a total disaster ", and a " complete fraud ".

Paula Jones ' legal team was also unable to track Gracen down because she had made unscheduled trips to Las Vegas and the Caribbean as well.

Bacon was subsequently a part of the legal team headed by Attorney General Sir Edward Coke at Essex's treason trial.

The move triggered a flurry of legal activity that ended when representatives of Baltimore and the Colts organization reached a settlement on March 1986 in which all lawsuits regarding the relocation were dismissed, and the Colts would endorse a new NFL team for Baltimore.

In a legal settlement, the team was required to provide a game to Softdisk every two months for a certain period of time, but they would do so on their own.

In order for there to be a legal beginning of a play, a certain number of the players on the offensive team, including certain eligible receivers, must be at, on or within a few inches off their line of scrimmage.

Although the baseball team moved to San Francisco after the 1957 season, the football team continues to use " New York Football Giants, Inc ." as its legal corporate name, and is often referred to by fans and sportscasters as the " New York Football Giants ".

To differentiate themselves from the baseball team of the same name, they took the name " New York Football Giants ", which they still use as their legal corporate name.

In 1972, the company's legal form was changed from Kommanditgesellschaft ( KG ), or limited partnership, to Aktiengesellschaft ( AG ), or public limited company, because Ferry Porsche and his sister, Louise Piëch, felt their generation members did not team up well.

In some team matches, only one entrant from each team may be designated as the " legal " or " active " wrestler at any given moment.

Some multi-wrestler matches allow for a set number of legal wrestlers, and a legal wrestler may tag out to any other wrestler, regardless of team.

If a tag was made, the other team had to automatically switch their legal wrestler as well.

The team's use of the phrase " 12th Man " was in a legal limbo for a while between the 2005 and 2006 seasons when Texas A & M University sued the team for trademark infringement.

A legal return consists of the player or team hitting the ball before it has bounced twice or hit any fixtures except the net, provided that it still falls in the server's court.

The first player or team to fail to make a legal return loses the point.

Outside legal spheres, the word " traitor " may also be used to describe a person who betrays ( or is accused of betraying ) their own political party, nation, family, friends, ethnic group, team, religion, social class, or other group to which they may belong.

The Redskins were under the threat of civil rights legal action by the Kennedy administration, which would have prevented a segregated team from playing at the new D. C. Stadium, as it was owned by the U. S. Department of the Interior and thus was federal government property.

* Boies is part of the legal team representing the National Football League in their antitrust litigation, Brady v. NFL.

Nick Matzke, the NCSE's Public Information Project Director at the time, served as liaison to the legal team, and was responsible for uncovering the substitution of " intelligent design " for " creationism " within drafts of Of Pandas and People, which became a devastating part of the testimony of Barbara Forrest ( also an NCSE Director ), and was cited extensively in Judge John E. Jones III's decision.

Moreover, in software development, legal and business practice and other environments, it has become increasingly common for a single document or snippet of code to be edited by a team, the members of which may be geographically dispersed and may pursue different and even contrary interests.

A poll conducted in Nevada in 2002 found that 52 % of the 600 respondents favored the existing legal and regulated brothels, while 31 % were against laws that allow prostitution and the remainder were undecided, preferred fewer legal constraints on prostitution, or did not offer an opinion.

Thus legal realism or " relationalism " has been favored in some common law jurisdictions, where the kind of legal codification associated with continental ( and Japanese ) law are virtually unknown.

Instead the favored idea was Szent Korona Állameszmény, which assigned legal personhood to the Holy Crown and declared that all state powers of the monarch or the government stem solely from the sacred powers of the headgear.

Although a slaveholder, he was opposed to the extension of slavery and favored gradual legal emancipation.

This could involve financial support for favored candidates, media guidance, technical support for public relations, get-out-the-vote or political organizing efforts, legal expertise, advertising campaigns, assistance with poll-watching, and other means of direct action.

“ the first Carlist war was fought not so much on the basis of the legal claim of Don Carlos, but because a passionate, dedicated section of the Spanish people favored a return to a kind of absolute monarchy that they felt would protect their individual freedoms ( fueros ), their regional individuality and their religious conservatism .”

The Federal Labor Boards, which had the power to determine which unions could represent workers and which strikes were legal, consistently favored the CTM against its rivals.

The Federal Labor Board, which determined which unions could represent workers and whether strikes were legal, consistently favored the CTM against its rivals.

He favored a moratorium on legal immigration and the deportation of all illegal immigrants.

Lynching did not so much substitute for an absent legal system as to provide an alternative system that favored a particular social class or racial group.

Vaghi is also active in the John Carroll Society, " an old-time Catholic service organization favored by Washington's large Catholic legal and political establishment ," as whose chaplain he serves as of 1987.

At this time the Stone Roses decided to capitalise on their success by signing to a major label ; then, their current record label Silvertone would not let them out of their contract, which led to a long legal battle that culminated with the band signing with Geffen Records in 1991, and then releasing their second album Second Coming in 1994.

Unicorn ended up filing even more legal briefs, claiming that Black Flag had violated a court injunction against releasing new records.

New England threatened legal action against Parcells and the Jets, but NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue brokered a deal between the two sides, with New England releasing Parcells from his contract and the Jets giving New England a third and fourth round pick that year, a second round pick the next year and a first round draft choice the year after that.

On 5 March 2011, lead singer Damian Alexander announced they would be releasing their new single " From The Blind Spot " under the name Blacklist due to legal reasons.

Currently the band members are in a legal battle with former drummer, Shelton Woolright to keep releasing music under the name of Blindspott.

The band then worked on releasing a DVD originally entitled Lunar Still / 13 Years of Doom, but had some issues of a legal nature and was forced to delay the release, originally expected in September 2005.

The band are boldly exploring new distribution methods and widening their fanbase by releasing a torrent of some of their songs available for free ( and legal ) download as they added the torrent themselves.

Kelley threatened legal action against Dovey, stating in the press that Dovey was releasing him to cut salary.

They intended on releasing it on May 20, 2011, however, " legal issues " and internal disagreements kept the album from being released.

However, it wasn't until August, three months after the album delay, that the band announced that legal issues kept them from ever releasing the album in its then-current form, so they are currently in the process of re-recording the entire album.

Opponents say that the bill is just a legal mechanism for releasing supporters of the present government who have been imprisoned on coup-related charges.

In 2001, the band made a unique move after talks with Epic, releasing Cockroach, which was supposed to be their third album, but could not be released for legal issues.

When Pierson ’ s legal team finally caught up with the independent Los Angeles record company owners who he had done business with in the past, he admitted releasing the album without permission and promised outstanding royalty payments would be forthcoming.

Senator Xenophon told the media ; " Show us the advice, otherwise his opinion and his decision not to act lacks credibility ... Only by releasing the legal advice will the Attorney-General show that he has a genuine commitment to justice in the McGee case ".

Sketch has publicly stated that she fully intends to release a solo effort, but that legal complications have thus far prevented the band from officially releasing any music.

Beddoes travelled throughout Fiji, speaking against the bill, which was, he claimed, nothing other than a legal mechanism for releasing from prison persons convicted of involvement in the coup, who were supporters of or in some way linked to the present government.

There is no legal obligation for approval by the FSK ; however, members of the SPIO commit themselves to only releasing productions passed by the FSK.

The bill, which Chaudhry strongly opposes, is aimed at empowering a commission to compensate victims and pardon perpetrators of the 2000 coup, and is alleged by Chaudhry and other detractors to be nothing other than a legal mechanism for releasing supporters of the present government who have been convicted and imprisoned for their role in it.