The phrase "approving a case" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts such as legal, medical, or administrative settings where a decision is made to accept or validate a particular case or situation.
Example: "The committee is responsible for approving a case before it can proceed to the next stage of the review process."
Alternatives: "validating a case" or "endorsing a case".
He said the department would have the final say on releasing any funds after approving a business case from the company.
But it was unclear that Jon D. Leibowitz, the F.T.C. chairman, could get the two votes necessary to approve a tougher case against Google.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has said that if the city does not wring pay concessions from the teachers' union and all of Gov. David A. Paterson's proposed budget cuts are approved — a worst case — the city may have to get rid of 11,000 of its 79,000 teachers.
No mention of such case being sent to a special screening unit or being worked through the Exempt Organizations Technical unit at IRS headquarters in D.C. Nothing says a screener cannot approve a "progressive" case on the spot.
In approving a search warrant in a case in January, the majority, he said, was giving prosecutors "a net far more capacious than the law allows".
The prosecutors say the judge wanted the payment in exchange for approving a settlement of a civil case that would net the lawyer a $1.6 million fee.
The Kenyan government has essentially three options: coax a rebellious Parliament into approving a special tribunal; refer the case to the International Criminal Court, which has already been criticized for picking on Africa; or do an end run around Parliament and set up a special branch of Kenya's judiciary, whose credibility is "below sea level," according to one human rights official.
Yahoo shares some statistical data with researchers who are approved case by case through an internal vetting program, according to Joanna Stevens, a company spokeswoman, but query data, she said, has never been distributed.
