1.   Given the ease with which drug evidence can be disposed of, a lower court had authorized a blanket exception to the knock and announce rule.

2.   Lew-Hanson fought the eviction, but a court authorized the ouster.

3.   Such a disclosure violates the law anytime a court authorizes a wiretap, Rehnquist wrote.

4.   Under the act, a special court may authorize search and surveillance of suspected foreign spies and terrorists.

5.   A court authorized the intervention Thursday, but officials said at the time that management had not yet requested it.

6.   A court authorized the sale after another Chinese owner found itself unable to pay a Shanghai shipyard for renovations to turn the vessel into a yacht, Xinhua said.

7.   A Jerusalem court authorized his extradition last year.

8.   A local court has authorized the demolition, he added.

9.   A federal court authorized Friday the confiscation of real estate and other property from two Department of Veterans Affairs employees suspected of fraud, the FBI said.

10.   A French court on Wednesday authorized the transfer a former Rwandan education minister to an international court to stand trial on charges of genocide.