Sentence examples for legally appointed from inspiring English sources

Federal courts in Kansas and Texas, she noted, have ruled Whitaker was legally appointed.

The notice of termination may be signed by the specified owners of termination interests or by "their duly authorized agents," which would include the legally appointed guardians or committees of persons incompetent to sign because of age or mental disability.

Throughout Eastern Europe, legally appointed guardians decide where their wards live, how to spend their money, how to use their property and sometimes even whom they can befriend or be intimate with.

But my bird-shooting pals (all voters, by the way, some Republicans, some Democrats, some Libertarians) don't tend to think that Washington's at war with us or that our legally appointed federal agents are "jack-booted thugs" or bucket-helmeted Nazis intent on imprisoning us in our own country (as an infamous N.R.A. fund-raising letter put it).

The justices emphasized the narrow scope of their ruling, saying it affected only cases involving patients who are conscious, who would die without life support, and who have not left formal directions for health care or legally appointed anyone to make such decisions should they ever be unable to make them.

ALBANY — When the Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, hears arguments on Friday in a case that will ultimately decide whether Gov. David A. Paterson legally appointed Richard Ravitch as lieutenant governor, it will be wading into an area of constitutional law that has been a battleground for clashes — the boundaries of power between branches of government.

The move represented a temporary coup for Democrats, but Republicans questioned its constitutionality, as well as whether McAuliffe can legally appoint Roush to a second interim appointment.

Whether Mr. Paterson can legally appoint a lieutenant governor has been a matter of much debate this week.

The Walker administration said Wednesday it does not believe the commission can legally appoint Haas to lead it.

Instead, the justices unanimously ruled that the board has been legally established and appointed.

The battle began at Christmas, with the appointment of the fourth director of Czech television in two and a half years: Jiri Hodac, the former head of the Czech-language section of the British Broadcasting Corporation, who was legally if abruptly appointed by the Czech Television Council, which is named by Parliament.