cognizable

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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

This issue, which goes all the way to the Supreme Court, is that everyone wants to suggest that nobody has standing to bring this litigation because Amanda has already had her cognizable harm and injury.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2023

“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

Autrey shot down that claim, saying “the tenuous nature of future income tax revenue is insufficient to establish a cognizable injury to support standing to bring this action.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2022

Similarly, no articulate sound is cognizable until the inarticulate sounds which go to make it up have been learned.

From Froebel's Gifts by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith