Lawyers close to the territorial government in Santa Fe, and closely aligned with the Republican Party that dominated Washington, D.C., and controlled the territorial patronage system, would routinely misuse authority over the law to defraud residents of land and enrich themselves from sales to ranchers and settlers from the east.
The court allowed Mr. Glik's suit to go forward because it found that the officers misused their authority in arresting him.
Romanian state prosecutors questioned Ponta on Tuesday about allegations that he misused his authority as leader of the Social Democratic party to persuade Blair to come to Romania.
He also ruled the president had misused his authority to issue emergency regulations and waive a 30-day waiting period to consider comments on the policy change.
Last year's report caused an uproar in Congress when it was disclosed that the F.B.I., under powers granted by the USA Patriot Act, had misused its authority to gather records in thousands of instances from 2003 to 2005.
The state attorney general's office declined on Friday to charge Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, a former co-chairman of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign in Arizona, over accusations that he misused his authority to harass and intimidate an ex-boyfriend, whom Sheriff Babeu later accused of stealing his online identity.
A portion of that story also described accusations made by a former N.Y.P.D. officer and other witnesses that Grimm, as an F.B.I. agent, had misused his authority by pulling his weapon and making racially charged statements in a night-club incident.
"We believe this situation constitutes an unacceptable security risk to the Internet in general and especially to foreigners who use Etisalat's data services when they travel," he wrote, adding that the foundation did not know whether Etisalat had misused its authority yet.
He said Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney want to right a balance they believe has tilted much too far toward Congress, largely because of precedents established when President Bill Clinton misused executive authority by trying to keep matters secret to cover up wrongdoing.
Critics, past and present, are adamant that Xuanxue scholars had distorted the teaching of Confucius, or worse, misused the authority of Confucius to give credence to their own agenda.
Harry Reid became concerned that President Bush misused the authority for controversial and unqualified officials.
