A “game of inches” is a phrase used to describe football, but it can apply to legal matters as well.

One such case might be the suit filed last week by actor Justin Theroux against attorney Norman J. Resnicow, his downstairs neighbor at the Greenwich Village building where the star of HBO's “The Leftovers” sometimes lives with his wife Jennifer Aniston.

The suit, filed Friday in New York Supreme Court, alleges that Resnicow, a partner at the New York law firm of Fox, Horan & Camerini, has used his lawyerly skills “to bully and intimidate Mr. Theroux.” As a dispute over Theroux's renovations escalated, Resnicow retaliated by redrawing the boundary line dividing their shared roof deck, the suit alleges.