He stated that the Navy had uncovered no evidence to suggest that the gun had been operated improperly, nor had it established a plausible accidental cause for the explosion.
Nevertheless, he said, citing a precedent established by Monroe, Wilkes had improperly allowed the ship to continue to England rather than taking it into port, where the matter could be settled in court.
In its new petition, the paper said Judges Ciavarella and Conahan had improperly ensured control of the case by skirting established procedures for the assigning of cases and getting this one routed to themselves.
In holding that the Nixon administration could not prevent The New York Times or The Washington Post from publishing articles detailing the findings of a classified report improperly leaked by a third party, the Court established the principle that the government may not simply use a vague invocation of national security to censor an individual prior to publication.
We should also note that in the same passage of his commentary on the Categories, Boethius linked deliberate equivocation with metaphor, in which the sense of one word with an established signification was extended to apply improperly to something else.
They claim that the pipeline violates treaty rights established in the mid-1800s and that the Army of Corps of Engineers improperly evaluated the pipeline's environmental impact on their water source.
Afterward, it was established that the fire "was caused by unlicensed welders improperly operating their equipment", and several welders were arrested.
Specifically, the GAO was asked to determine if the USAF accident investigation board had met its objectives, if the subsequent military justice investigations had followed established guidelines, and if the DoD and/or USAF had improperly or unlawfully influenced these investigations.
In the original complaint filed last May, the plaintiffs said the district established the elective Bible course through a process that was "improperly designed to promote religious instruction".
Rather it is established, on the balance of probabilities, that Mr Lee acted improperly in relation to matches that he either believed he would lose or that he believed he would win sufficiently comfortably that he could drop the first frame".
