Determing whether it is a legal catch has to do with where the defensive player is when contact is made with the ball. What he does prior to the contact is not an issue. If he had one foot in LBT when the catch was made, then we have a legal catch. The only FED reference I have, however, deals with when it is a catch (2-9-1) or when it becomes dead (5-1-1i).
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