All those states, except Utah, provide the option of judicial approval.

But the police must seek regular judicial approval to keep suspects in detention.

And all with the seal of judicial approval without any formal power granted by Parliament.

The parties reapplied for judicial approval, and he denied it again on Wednesday.

Spanish lawyers are still struggling to get judicial approval for their criminal suits.

This was the first known judicial approval of life servitude in Virginia, except as punishment for a crime.

Under existing law, the government must obtain judicial approval within 72 hours of the start of emergency wiretapping.

The surveillance also must cease within seven days if judicial approval for it is not forthcoming.

"Seeking judicial approval for government activities that implicate constitutional protections is, of course, the American way," he wrote.

It gives law enforcement another confidential way to demand information but has seldom been used because it requires judicial approval.