Today's ruling does not automatically reinstate the award, but sends it back to the Appellate Division for resolution of several legal issues.

Judge Anderson's ruling reinstated the personal recognizance bond.

The ruling reinstates a ban on land acquisitions for the project.

The 2-to-1 ruling reinstated, but did not resolve, a lawsuit that has yet to go to trial.

The Judicial Council's ruling yesterday reinstated the original decision, and Ms. Stroud, 35, who will continue as a lay pastor at the Germantown church, said in a telephone interview that she would turn in her ordination credentials.

The ruling, in an opinion by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, did not automatically reinstate the conviction of the 64-year-old judge, who sits in San Jose, Calif.

That ruling reinstated a lawsuit brought by the parents of a 16-year-old boy who died after a patrol car driven by a Sacramento County Sheriff's deputy crashed into the motorcycle on which the teen-ager was a passenger.

The ruling today reinstated the conviction of of the defendant, Sergio Stincer, who was found guilty of sodomizing two girls, who were 7 and 8 years old.

The judge's ruling does not immediately reinstate the former officer, Joseph Locurto, and the two former firefighters, Jonathan Walters and Robert Steiner.

The ruling today reinstated the conviction of a California man for possessing marijuana, which the police had found in a paper bag in the trunk of his car.