technical

mastery
/ˈtɛk.nɪ.kəl/adjnoun

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Which meaning of 'technical' best matches its usage in the sentence?

By granting the appeal, the court is directly taking on the merits of a controversy that it largely avoided earlier this year, when it sided with Trump on technical grounds dealing with how the challenges to the policy were handled by lower courts.