court-ordered
- s ordered by a court of law
- After nearly 20 years of court-ordered integrated education, most Americans are aware of the problems of black students brought into a predominantly white school.
- Although prosecutors had assembled hundreds of reels of tape from court-ordered wiretaps and bugs, DEA investigators conceded in court that they had Barnes' voice on only one tape .
- Around the same time, a court-ordered investigation detailed an elaborate torture ring operated and later covered up by high-ranking Chicago police officials from the 1970s .