In a ruling released today, the court found that the FCC had "exceeded the scope of its delegated authority" when it created the requirement.

Both on the bench and in a written ruling released later in the day, Judge Ito reiterated Mr. Uelmen's litany without contradiction.

The ruling, released yesterday, does not apply to the city's larger group of tenants in the one million apartments covered by rent-stabilization laws.

In the portion of the ruling released on Wednesday, Judge Hyatt also said the Air Force did not give sufficient consideration to awarding the contract to more than one company.

In other rulings released yesterday, Judge Sand rejected several challenges to capital punishment in the case.

In a ruling released over the weekend, Justice Stuart C. Cohen gave the city until July 2001 to recycle one-quarter of its residential garbage, or 4,251 tons a day.

In a ruling released yesterday, a New Jersey administrative panel told PepsiCo that it must pay overtime to hundreds of drivers who worked for the company between 1993 and 1995.

But the ruling, released last Wednesday, still leaves the workers facing an uphill fight.

State Education Commissioner Thomas Sobol declared New York City's school expulsion policy illegal in a ruling released today.

The ruling, released yesterday, declared the 6-foot-7-inch sophomore forward ineligible because of improprieties involving the sports agent JAMES CASEY and the use of a car.