But a Christian group that sued Governor Paterson over his gay-marriage directive questioned whether the Massachusetts marriages would be valid in New York before resolution of the lawsuit, which is scheduled for a court hearing on Thursday.
The other issue in the case is whether President Obama had the authority to issue his directives — or whether, in doing so, he impinged on the right of Congress to pass laws.
The NYPD did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the incident, whether that directive remains in place, or whether it was part of a larger initiative.
But there is a question about whether one directive in her will can be carried out the way she wanted.
A consultation on car labelling launched on Monday asks whether the directive would have been "more effective" if it had included information on air pollutants.
The senator said he did not know whether the directive reflected the attorney general's views, because recently "Ashcroft very clearly told me that we need whistle-blowers".
Another friend, visiting Sweden, was sent off with the ornament directive; it was unclear whether she felt compelled to sign on.
As for cyberspace, the European Union nations themselves remain in dispute as to whether the directive applies to businesses outside of Europe that collect information online from European consumers, said Gerard de Graf, an official in the union's Washington office.
Although the European Union has developed technical rules, which it will soon make mandatory in a directive, it is unclear whether this will make the systems in different countries interoperable".Electronic toll-collection schemes and their underlying technologies will probably become the platform for all kinds of attractive new services"There are also political hurdles.
Austrian and Irish courts had asked the ECJ to decide whether the directive complied with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
