He also ruled that the State Department of Environmental Conservation had improperly granted an air quality permit to the plant - without which it cannot operate - and he voided the permit.

The Court held that summary judgment was improperly granted.

In their review of several FISA applications in the context of criminal cases, they have yet to indicate that a FISA warrant was improperly granted.

The case should have been dismissed as improperly granted, as the decision of the trial court that a total taking had occurred is highly questionable on the basis of the facts presented.

The neighborhood group took the village to court, charging that it had improperly granted a variance to build a town-house complex in a zone where only single-family homes were permitted.

Before the suit was filed, Mr. Grant said, the fund tried to persuade the Siebel executives to make the board more independent and return the options it said had been granted improperly.

More than 80 companies have been caught up in investigations into whether executives or boards improperly granted stock options.

Nor did it specify whether the improperly granted options were awarded to executives or employees.

The second shock was the arrival of people returning from the former African colonies, which the state improperly granted land to in the eastern plain.

On the other hand, we believe it is unacceptable for exclusive rights to be improperly granted to transmit information which ought to be disseminated by all the communications media to the widest possible public.