technicality

“But it’s a technicality when the only hospital you can have a baby at won’t help you.”

Among other legal technicalities, Iwasaki wrote that the company Survey Monkey owned the survey in question — not the league.

Introducing the law change in 2014, the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government argued it would stop compensation going to people who only had their conviction quashed on a technicality, and therefore might be guilty.

The courts agreed, based on a number of legal technicalities, although the prosecutors described the ruling as "unjust".

Against the colossal intimidation of a sitting president declaring something illegal and subject to investigation, though, such technicalities may be hard to consider.