Wall is also known for his legal scrapes and for his personal and public generosity.

To others who love Iverson's willingness to get floor burns but are wearying of his legal scrapes, his behavior has become tiresome and self-destructive.

In his early years as a numbers boss, Mr. Marquez had few legal scrapes.

His unrelenting nastiness has led to a number of legal scrapes over the years, but a wily lawyer has usually managed to put him back on the streets.

In a brief phone interview yesterday, Mr. Pugach, who lives in Queens, said that, after all his legal scrapes, he still wanted to practice law.

Márquez had few legal scrapes during his early years.

Sometimes, Iverson's way got him into legal scrapes, starting when he was in high school.

His legal scrapes led the state bar to try to deny him a license to practice on the ground of character, but he won the right after a two-year court fight.

Somehow, neither Golden State's dysfunction nor his legal scrapes as a Washington Wizard diluted his appeal.

We cover the formal legal scrapes about the "separation" of church and state but shy from the moral and ideological influences of the clergy and lay religious leaders.