The new ruling concerns the much-debated admissions policy at the University of Michigan Law School, which was declared unconstitutional by a federal district judge in Detroit last year.

The ruling concerned the Pentagon policy on homosexuals that was in place when President Clinton took office; that policy is being changed by the Clinton Administration.

That ruling concerned the murder of a Berkeley student named Tatiana Tarasoff.

The ruling on Friday concerned a case brought by 188 people, including 116 citizens of Taiwan, a former Japanese colony.

The ruling on Monday concerned the combined case with Nokia over four patents.

The ruling, made unanimously by the four-judge panel, concerned a case in 1992 at William Howard Taft High School in the Bronx.

The ruling, made public today, concerns the the Whydah, run aground off Cape Cod by Samuel (Black Sam) Bellamy in 1717.

One ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, concerned the four other cases, from Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia and Delaware.

The ruling concerned the right of motor insurers to set lower premiums for young women drivers because they are less accident-prone.

The ruling, which Microsoft is appealing, concerned a patent infringement allegation involving data-compression technology.