In authorizing the instructions, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals appeared to have "clearly misapprehended our prior decision," Justice O'Connor wrote.
In authorizing the Treasury to buy $700 billion in mortgages and related securities last month, Congress instructed the Bush administration, as an investor, to modify more loans.
In authorizing the closing, the state's Department of Health has ordered the home, which is scheduled to shut in late October, to find new beds for all 95 residents.
In authorizing the new military strategy, Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also defines three core missions for the regional war-fighting commanders and heads of the armed services: to protect the United States, to prevent conflict and surprise attacks and to prevail against adversaries.
In authorizing continued covert action in Pakistan and agreeing to a slower pace of withdrawal from Iraq than he talked about during the campaign, he has raised the question of whether new facts, more hawkish advisers or the drumbeat of daily threat assessments have subtly changed his willingness to throw the gearboxes in reverse.
In authorizing the latest injection of state funds, the European Commission said Tuesday that the approval was temporary and that Belgium must draw up an in-depth restructuring plan for the bank within three months to show how it plans to counter distortions of competition because KBC has received more state help than rivals elsewhere.
The Scottish National Party also said it will be abstaining from today's vote, raising a raft of concerns about the current draft, including what it dubbed "vague definitions," the wide-ranging scope of ICRs and the continued role of ministers in authorizing warrants (versus a system based solely on judicial authorization, as is the case in the U.S. and elsewhere).
A new engine-durability study that found damage in engines run on gasoline with 15-percent ethanol content proved one of two things: either the Environmental Protection Agency was hasty in authorizing the sale of the fuel blend or the study's authors produced "junk science," in the words of one critic.
In its 1963 Arizona v. California decision, the court found that in authorizing the Hoover Dam, Congress had delegated to the secretary of the interior authority to apportion the river among Arizona, Nevada and California.
His son Gustavo Vargas Villegas, a former official with Bolivia's aviation authority, is also being held on charges that he misused his influence in authorizing the license of the plane that crashed.
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said that quality was the main factor in authorizing a supplier.
