Now the ruling has come, but weeks ahead of schedule.

The new ruling will come into action from December 2012.

The ruling came less than two hours before the execution.

The ruling came two days before the law was to take effect.

The ruling came two days before the end of the campaign.

More likely, a ruling would come in late 1994 or early 1995.

The ruling comes three weeks after a late April hearing on the matter.

That ruling might not come until next week, less than two weeks before the election.

The ruling did not come until after a lawsuit in 1957.

The ruling came after a legal process that began in 1999.