What other issues are still to be decided in the case?
In 2007, the New York County Surrogate's Court decided in the case In re Martin B. that two posthumously conceived children could benefit from a trust created by their grandfather, Martin B., for his two sons and any grandchildren.
Al Franken's lead in the Minnesota Senate race grew on Tuesday after some absentee ballots were counted in court, but some issues remain to be decided in the case, and Mr. Franken's opponent, Norm Coleman, plans to appeal.
While the creators said they decided, in the case of Melissa, not to be strictly faithful to the memoir, the real-life Mr. Savage — who was not involved in the musical — said in a phone interview from his Seattle home that he pushed them to make changes in her character because he felt she was rendered as unflattering.
That, at any rate, is what the Memorial Foundation for the Murdered Jews of Europe, which has overall responsibility for the memorial, decided in the case of the chemical company Degussa, which was to have provided the anti-graffiti material being used to protect the 2,700 concrete steles that are to be placed into the memorial ground.
"We had decided in the case of batteries that the thing that would make the difference would be to have them not have liquids in them," Joy said of the initial challenge.
That is what Federal District Judge Amy Totenberg was asked to decide in the case of the "devious defecator".
The United States Supreme Court will soon decide in the case of Ernest McCarver, a North Carolina death row inmate with the mind of a 10-year-old, whether to require a categorical ban against executing people with mental retardation.
The main question the justices have been asked to decide in the case, Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, No. 12-399, is whether the law applies when an unmarried mother who is not an Indian gives up her child for adoption.
The sanctions against Tressel were handed down by the university and are essentially a pre-emptive measure for what the N.C.A.A.'s Committee on Infractions could decide in the case.
