authorized
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It has been a long road: Congress authorized such agreements with the Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act of 2005.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
District Court Judge Katherine Menendez dismissed the case, ultimately finding that Congress never authorized the attorney general to access voting records and documents that state officials create themselves.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
The environmental initiative was shelved in 2013 by president Rafael Correa, who authorized crude extraction in the Yasuni National Park after acknowledging the plan's economic failure.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
When the BBC’s legal team did exactly that, Secret Service counsel Troy Epstein flatly declared the agency was neither authorized to accept service on the family’s behalf nor willing to help facilitate it.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
H. G. Wells’s literary agent told the press that he never authorized changes to the original story that could cause such alarm.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
