The ruling dealt with an issue that the courts have confronted before.

The judge's ruling did not deal with financial support for the couple's 6-year-old son, Alexander Devon.

The ruling also deals with the right of publication under the Copyright Act.

The 6-3 ruling dealt with three individual issues before the court.

The case would be extremely difficult to appeal, he said, because yesterday's ruling dealt with specific facts rather than constitutional issues.

The ruling dealt an apparently decisive blow to the largest lawsuit concerning this issue in the country.

Yesterday's ruling did not deal with rent-stablized apartments, which pose more of a legal tangle.

Judge Hellerstein's ruling dealt with a range of motions by the parties to dismiss various claims without a trial.

But that ruling did not deal with the issue of whether he could be questioned as a witness.

Judge Parker's ruling did not deal with the merits of the agency's proposed rule.