Bright-line test
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Always uttered in the negative, and with insincere remorse — i.e., “sadly, there’s no bright line test” — a bright line test is a metaphysical concept that does not exist as a matter of New York law (or for that matter Federal law or any other state’s law). It is a US attorney’s means of evading any responsibility for anything she says or does, instantly rendering any legal opinion she may have written to you worthless.
Usage
“There is no bright line test in the rules, and consequently there is always a potential risk that regulators might be inclined to take the view that your good faith practice on which your firm designed its implementation might not be recharacterized as a safe harbor to Title III of Regulation G of Rule 14-a7 of the 40 Act ...” zzzzz zzzz zzzz HEY! WAKE UP!