The phrase "action ruling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to decision-making, governance, or legal matters where a specific action or directive is being established or enforced.
Example: "The committee's action ruling on the proposed policy changes will be implemented immediately."
Alternatives: "directive decision" or "executive order".
A Michigan judge has delivered a setback to opponents of affirmative action, ruling that state election officials should never have approved the wording of petitions for a ballot initiative that would bar consideration of race in public employment or education.
Wenger expressed his shock at the severity of the injury, which has forced the 24-year-old to miss six months of action, ruling him out of the World Cup finals in Brazil, and said they did not think it was going to be as bad as it was.
As we survey the environment following this summer's affirmative action ruling by the Supreme Court in Fisher v. Texas, we must not lose sight of the fact that as important as legal theorizing and statistical projections may be to navigating the societal landscape, there are real lives at stake every day -- in communities large and small all across our nation.
The court prohibited such actions, ruling "...we must condemn the practice of imputing a sinister meaning to the exercise of a person's constitutional right under the Fifth Amendment.
Then, by a 5-to-4 vote, the justices set strict limits on federal affirmative action programs, ruling that such programs must be narrowly tailored to meet a compelling government interest.
E1 CIRCUITS G1-12 SPORTS D1-8 EDUCATION Afederalive Action Upheld A federal judge upheld the University of Michigan's affirmative action program, ruling that diversity is a critical component of higher education and that colleges and universities can continue to consider race and ethnicity in admissions.
In its first major affirmative-action ruling, the Bakke case of 1978, the Supreme Court rejected the notion that society-wide discrimination justified preferences for individuals.
If minority admissions continue to fall at Texas's state universities, the state's attorney-general, Dan Morales, will be urged to mount an attack on the appeal court's anti-affirmative-action ruling, which he will probably lose.
Seven years ago, in the court's last major affirmative-action ruling, Justice O'Connor joined with Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas to strike down an affirmative action contracting program.
The company appealed to the United States Supreme Court, arguing that the effect of the class-action ruling was to discriminate against arbitrations in violation of the Federal Arbitration Act, which generally overrides state laws unfavorable to arbitration and requires courts to enforce arbitration agreements unless a given state law limitation applies to all kinds of contracts.
Like every class-action ruling, the certification "should not be construed in any manner as a ruling on the merits or the probable outcome of the case," Jenkins wrote.
