def _check_whether_chunk_is_new_section(hit):
'''
a checker to validate whether a given piece of context could
conceivably be a real litigation mention and not just some detritus
picked up by the regexes from the table of contents or something
'''
# check to see whether it belongs to the table of contents
for token in nltk.word_tokenize(hit):
if re.match(LPRC.common_words_in_legitimate_legal_proceeding_hits(), token):
return True
return False
