Out of 72,161 federal court decisions filed in 1994 and loaded into LEXIS only 130 included a chart, map, photograph or other graphical element.
The decision, filed last week, was in measured language and included no criticism of the federal prosecutors from the office of the United States attorney in Brooklyn, Roslynn R. Mauskopf.
In a decision filed Thursday, Judge Richard M. Berman of Federal District Court in New York agreed with government arguments that the papers did not have to be turned over for reasons including protecting the confidentiality of how the United States gets it intelligence information.
In a decision filed last week, Justice Phyllis Gangel-Jacof of State Supreme Court accepted Mr. Hirschfeld's argument that the office of District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau had overstepped its authority.
In the decision, filed late Friday, the judges simply sent the case to the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, for an interpretation of the state law at the center of the dispute.
In a decision filed late last month, Judge Wright ruled that the novels were "not substantially similar as a matter of law" and admonished Ms. Scott for her "deceptive presentation of the alleged similarities".
Ten advertising signs on the authority's property in Queens and in the Bronx violate an ordinance prohibiting signs along major roadways, the city's Board of Standards and Appeals said in a decision filed on Thursday.
In a decision filed on Monday, Federal Bankruptcy Judge Burton R. Lifland ruled that losses should be defined as the difference between the cash paid into a Madoff account and the amount withdrawn before the fraud collapsed in mid-December mid-December 2008
But Judge Sweet, in a decision filed Monday, said that the number of pay phones had declined substantially, that they were not always well maintained, and that the tapping protocol had not been tested with the pay-phone system.
But in a decision filed on Aug. 23 and received by workers' lawyers on Wednesday, he sided with the governments of Mexico and the United States and banks involved in the suit, ruling in some instances that they had soverign immunity, and in others that the statute of limitations had expired.
