Reaction today was sharply split over whether the Court's handling of the initial property question foreshadowed an eventual ruling that the program is unconstitutional.

And even an eventual ruling permitting estate sales would be a long way from open auctions at which anyone could put wine up for bid.

I already knew there was little chance of winning the case under existing Covenant guidelines, so your eventual ruling was unsurprising.

Judge Kaplan said the organizers' late filing date might be a factor in his eventual ruling, but it was not sufficient reason to dismiss the case.

It is the role of partisanship in redistricting that presents the greatest challenge for the court and the most far-reaching potential impact of its eventual ruling.

If White and the I.A.A.F. accept the eventual ruling by the agency, the case will be closed.

Whether that presages an eventual ruling that permits Elian to seek asylum is impossible to know, as the court itself cautioned.

The factual findings appeared to make an eventual ruling against Microsoft in United States District Court here all but inevitable.

The story tells how the case against Stein was prosecuted and defended, and the judge's eventual ruling delivered in the form of a pun.

President George W. Bush took the unusual step of publicly opposing the policy before the court issued a ruling, though the eventual ruling was mixed.