State officials said they did not believe that the ruling would increase the number of federal prosecutions.

This ruling increased the number of people entitled to vote by 210,000.

Supporters of the law predicted that Ms. Reno's ruling would not greatly increase the number of assisted suicides.

The ruling will greatly increase pressure on Texaco, the nation's third-largest oil company, to settle the complex suit and could push it into bankruptcy proceedings.

He said that the ruling did not necessarily increase the likelihood of a strike, but that any decision would come during a meeting of team player representatives.

But the new ruling upheld the conviction, and increased the damages by $640,000 to cover clean-XXXX up costs.

The ruling, however, increased the pressure on the Council to again reopen the lead-paint issue, which has been debated for two decades.

Some critics of current judicial campaigning said the new rulings would increase what they saw as troubling momentum.

In an interview this afternoon, Mr. Pell said the ruling "increases considerably the odds that there's going to be additional litigation here."

He said that the state was already paying its share and that the judge's ruling would increase costs and reduce health care for poor people.