cognizable
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On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court refused to hear her claim that “the mental suffering and psychological terror she will experience under Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol is cognizable under the Eighth Amendment.”
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Governor Cook has never committed mortgage fraud or any intentional wrongdoing, and there is no legally cognizable cause for removing her from the Federal Reserve Board,” Lowell wrote in the letter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
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
And, though too evanescent to be cognizable by the senses, or the most delicate chemical and mechanical tests, it possesses, nevertheless, a most astonishing activity.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock
