legal authority

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They also directed staff to ask Paxton to clarify whether Hood County has the legal authority to temporarily halt development under its watershed protection law.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

Charged in June 2025, Mudryk was subsequently handed the maximum four‑year ban by the FA, according to a spokesperson for the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the highest legal authority in sport.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

Who has legal authority to speak to doctors?

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

It "fails on the actual main goal: creating one true standard across Europe that creates legal certainty for our startups", since it defers legal authority to national courts, "aka 27 flavours of interpretation", it said.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

What is more, the members of the committee could be held personally responsible for all of this money because they had no legal authority to borrow or spend it.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy