Although the jury is not charged with ruling on Christo's project, it may issue a nonbinding recommendation.

The bill provides for arbitration panels that would issue a nonbinding recommendation to help settle disputes within nine months of the expiration of the teachers' old contract.

Or she may ask an employer to appoint an independent investigator to make a nonbinding recommendation.

His application to return to the business now has been referred to an administrative law judge, who will offer a nonbinding recommendation to the Transportation Department by October.

"This is a nonbinding recommendation by the Pentagon, and the White House and Congress need to sign off on it," he said.

After an arbitration panel made a nonbinding recommendation, the city and the teachers reached a settlement on Oct. 3.

Under that procedure, the commission would examine each side's last contract proposal and issue a nonbinding recommendation for settlement.

After the contract talks reached an impasse last year, the state named a fact-finding panel that is expected to issue a nonbinding recommendation for a settlement.

But Schering-Plough said in a statement that the panel's 19-to-4 vote on Claritin, its top-selling allergy drug, was "a nonbinding recommendation."

Such a panel would hear presentations by the city and the union and then issue a nonbinding recommendation for a settlement.