The phrase "actions ruling" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a context discussing the influence or control of actions over decisions or outcomes, but it is not commonly recognized.
Example: "In this organization, actions ruling over words is essential for effective leadership."
Alternatives: "actions governing" or "actions determining".
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.
The state's Civil Service Commission cannot muster a quorum due to vacancies, so as it waits for new members to be confirmed, the commission has postponed actions like ruling on a spate of proposed municipal layoffs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 appellate court ordered a new trial for the class-action case, ruling that Judge Peter J. Corrigan of Cuyahoga County erred in excluding evidence presented by Ford.
