The phrase "a binding ruling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or formal contexts to refer to a decision or judgment that must be followed.
Example: "The court issued a binding ruling that all parties must comply with the new regulations."
Alternatives: "an enforceable decision" or "a mandatory judgment".
The arbitrator, Mollie H. Bowers, wrote in a binding ruling that officials showed malice, ignored agency rules, twisted facts and disregarded the truth when they threatened to fire and then suspended the inspector, Croley Forester, for missing six pounds of cocaine in a package at Miami International Airport.
Russia's ban on the Church of Scientology is illegal, the European Court of Human Rights said Thursday in a binding ruling.
These clauses, often buried in the fine print of the customer agreements, stipulate that all group claims must be settled in an industry-run arbitration system, where a third party — often a retired judge — issues a binding ruling.
Instructions to the Arbitrator (a retired high court judge or libel QC) and the two lay assessors are agreed and within a month, your newspaper and the mosque's trustees have a binding ruling from the ER panel on meaning at a manageable cost to your newspaper.
The European Union regards this phenomenon as so inhumane that, on the basis of a binding ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (1989), EU countries may extradite an offender accused of a capital crime to a country that practices capital punishment only if a guarantee is given that the death penalty will not be sought.
However, Transport for London added it would invite the High Court to give a binding ruling on the matter "given the level of concern among the trade".
In some cases a mufti or muftiya might be consulted, but only a judge can make a legally binding ruling.
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the Communist Party-controlled legislature, issued a legally binding ruling last April barring universal suffrage as well as direct elections for chief executive in 2007, while leaving open the prospect of greater democracy in elections held in later years.
The authors of today's letter urge the court's judges to "deliberate on the full implications before making a legally binding ruling".
STAT1-dependent MED26 recruitment, therefore, differs strikingly not only from MED1 but also from the conditions of pTEFb/CDK9 promoter binding, ruling out a role of MED26 in tethering pTEFb to the Nos2 promoter.
§ 851.7 Requests for a binding interpretive ruling.
