However, the 2004 reform that gave rise to these credible fear claims actually shifted workload away from the courts, authorizing the Border Patrol to exercise deportation authority previously reserved for immigration judges.
(Participant 7 – NGO representative) For example, participants reported that most judges in Family Courts authorize underage marriages for economic reasons, especially if the region is poorer.
The FISA court authorized the surveillance, but imposed certain restrictions, which the government contends are neither mandated nor authorized by FISA.
But federal prosecutors discussed the matter in court papers they filed last week in Ms. Huntley's case, having learned about it through a court authorized wiretap of Ms. Huntley's cellphone.
The Supreme Courts of California and Connecticut established same-sex marriage as a state constitutional right during the year, making those states the first to legalize same-sex unions since the top Massachusetts court authorized full marriage rights for homosexuals in 2003.
Soon after, President George W. Bush, under a secret wiretapping program that circumvented the FISA court, authorized the N.S.A. to collect metadata and in some cases listen in on foreign calls to or from the United States.
In lieu of payment, the court authorized the seizure of Telenor's 29percentt share in VimpelCom, and ordered the company to pay the money or face having its shares sold at auction by Monday.
An appeals court authorized Gen. Augusto Pinochet's release from house arrest on bail of $3,500 in connection with a case in which the 89-year-old former dictator has been ruled fit to stand trial on 10 counts of kidnapping and murder.
Meanwhile, in Orlando, a court authorized the removal of a gun from the home of a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Florida who had posted messages online praising Nikolas Cruz and Stephen Paddock, the Nevadan who shot dead fifty-eight people in Las Vegas, last October.
