The phrase "authority liable" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a legal or formal context to discuss the responsibility of an authority figure or organization for certain actions or outcomes.
Example: "The court found the authority liable for the damages caused by the negligence of its employees."
Alternatives: "responsible authority" or "accountable authority".
In the culmination of a bitter, drawn-out battle between the regional authority in Newcastle upon Tyne and private bus firms, an independent board could in effect dismiss a scheme to re-regulate buses, warning that the plans would potentially leave the authority liable for millions of pounds in compensation for operators such as Stagecoach.
A US court in New York has found the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority liable for attacks in Israel over 10 years ago.
"Regaining control over all of the incidents and the acts of violence by the Palestinian Authority is liable to take some time, but we don't have a lot of time," he said.
The principle that all public authorities are liable to have the lawfulness of their acts and decisions tested in the ordinary courts was applied everywhere the common law prevailed, including the United States, despite the much stricter interpretation given by the Founding Fathers there to the doctrine of the separation of powers a doctrine embodied in the federal and state constitutions.
Mitchell H. Pally, a board member representing Suffolk County, agreed that the authority "could be liable for additional costs," but voted to approve the deal.
The Foreign Office has in the past argued that the Kenyan government, as the successor authority, should be liable for the claims.
Built into the terms of the lease was a move-in deadline: the port authority would be liable for penalties or lost earnings if Condé Nast were forced to wait beyond 1 January 2014 to begin the process of moving in.
And for the children in Z v UK, whose abuse and neglect by their parents was overlooked for years by the social services departments who were supposed to be protecting them, Article 3 was a means by which the negligent local authorities were held liable to pay them damages and the overall law changed to make such neglect less likely to happen in the future.
Justice BRENNAN, joined by Justice MARSHALL, Justice BLACKMUN, and Justice STEVENS, concluded in Part III that Congress has the authority to render States liable for money damages in federal court when legislating pursuant to the Commerce Clause.
3, granted Congress the power to abrogate state sovereign immunity, stating that the power to regulate interstate commerce would be "incomplete without the authority to render States liable in damages". Union Gas, 491 U.S. at 19-20.
For a breach of such an injunction, these officers would be amenable to the court as proceeding in contempt of its authority, and would be liable to punishment therefor by attachment and imprisonment.
