Local 54 then filed suit in federal district court, seeking a permanent injunction prohibiting enforcement of the act.

Pending further court action, Judge Pfaezler left standing an earlier injunction that prohibits enforcement of most of the provisions of the proposition.

"The plaintiffs are seeking to prohibit enforcement of the Solomon amendment," said Michael Chagares, chief of the civil division of the United States attorney's office in Newark.

The Administration acted hours after a Federal district judge in Boston issued a nationwide injunction permanently prohibiting enforcement of the restriction.

Both houses have voted to prohibit enforcement of an Administration regulation banning federally financed family planning clinics from telling pregnant women about abortion options.

It asked the court to prohibit enforcement of the directive, a request the court granted yesterday.

Casey had granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting enforcement of the Act on November 6, 2003, the day after it was signed into law.

That would prohibit enforcement of the notification provisions pending a decision by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which held a hearing on the notification law last October.

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions did not attempt to prohibit enforcement of the Alien and Sedition Acts within the borders of those states.

Congressman Cohen wrote and introduced this legislation to amend U.S. code to prohibit recognition and enforcement of foreign defamation judgments.