The court's ruling was needed for the state to invoke its law governing financially distressed cities.
That Thursday's ruling was needed at all is a reminder of how much in the British political and democratic system still needs fixing.
"I think this is very likely to go to the Supreme Court, because there's a direct conflict between the circuits, it's of great national importance and the 8-7 split on the Sixth Circuit is a signal that some ruling is needed," said Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who helped draft the California ban.
Christians in Malaysia had used the word "Allah" for decades in churches and Malay-language Bibles, but the government decided a judicial ruling was needed to determine if the terminology should be legal.
Since April, much of the plan has been delayed because of a federal appeals court ruling that more environmental studies are needed.
The rule was hugely controversial when first proposed in 1995 and was never adopted by the agency because of a Supreme Court ruling that legislation was needed to empower the F.D.A. to regulate tobacco products.
The government cleared his application, essentially ruling that his skills were needed.
A district court rejected her father's request to keep her on a ventilator, but the Nevada Supreme Court reversed the lower court's decision, ruling that expert testimony was needed to determine whether the standard brain-death tests "adequately measure all functions of the entire brain".
Mr Bush had promised his approval would be based on "sound science", but a federal appeals court on July 9th delivered a mixed verdict on the project, ruling that better safeguards were needed.In theory, the issue should be a winner for Mr Kerry, who has for years opposed the Yucca Mountain scheme and has got an anti-Yucca plank into his party's national platform.
This image is needed for ruling out pleural complications. .
