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litigable

adjective actionable, appealable, arguable, argumentative, capable of being debated, confutable, controversial, controvertible, disputable, in dissute, justiciable, refutable

litigable

that may be the subject of litigation.
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2264 from "not frivolous" to "reasonable basis" for both taxpayers and tax return preparers as improper in that it imposes higher standard than required of litigable position).
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tend to make a litigable issue out of specific knowledge of the law at
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Part of this Article's project is to help judges, litigators, and voters understand that long lines at the polls are problems of constitutional dimension and that they are litigable.
Abolishing the time tax on voting
Not infrequently, the parties to a business-to-business dispute have a larger relationship that they wish to preserve, notwithstanding the litigable controversy that divides them.
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