cognizable
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Joby’s court filing said Archer’s complaint was “long on innuendo, but short on factual allegations supporting cognizable legal theories.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
That case was dismissed in 2019 for a "failure to allege a cognizable legal theory"; the latest lawsuits' "natural" claims represent a different tactic.
From Salon ● May 21, 2024
“Without common interests and a shared history and socioeconomic experience, it is not a community that can give rise to a cognizable right protected by” the state constitution, the court wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
So the states have no “judicial cognizable interest” that the courts can redress.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2023
Two terms which are indistinguishable are practically identical; and two terms which are not identical vary by a difference which is cognizable by itself apart from either term.
From The Philosophy of Evolution Together With a Preliminary Essay on The Metaphysical Basis of Science by Stephen H. (Stephen Haskins) Carpenter
