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  • present participle of rule.
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ruling

[roo-ling] / ˈru lɪŋ /




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An appellate court reversed that ruling and allowed the lockout to continue, citing the Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932, which limits federal courts’ power to issue injunctions in labor disputes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

And by 1980, the Supreme Court explicitly put the two cases together, ruling in Carson v.

From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2026

The judge's ruling comes after Clancy's defence team requested dismissal of the case after her trial ended in a mistrial in September, when a 12-person jury failed to reach consensus.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Laiken Jordahl, national public lands advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, called the ruling by the Supreme Court a "horrific decision."

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

But what we Nigerians needed was not soldiers ruling us, what we needed was a renewed democracy.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Damien Charlotin, an adjunct professor at UC Law San Francisco who tracks AI-generated errors in court cases, has counted 148 family-law rulings in which judges flagged fake citations or other apparent AI mistakes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Damien Charlotin of UC Law San Francisco has counted 148 family-law rulings where judges flagged fake citations or other apparent AI mistakes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

When the parties meet again later this month, they will hear the judge's rulings on the motions argued in court on Monday, and potentially will discuss dates for a retrial, Judge Sullivan said.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

The dispute intensified after rulings by European institutions challenging the independence of the tribunal in its current form.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

The Court began insisting that federal judges defer more to state court rulings, which tended to be more indulgent of errors and defects in capital proceedings.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson


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