Damages will be determined at a later hearing, the court said in Monday's ruling.

"The standard of fitness is not a particularly high one," Justice Berkman said in her ruling.

That, the judges said in their ruling, violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

"Be careful what you wished," the judge said in his ruling "You might just get it."

The women will receive no money because the violation was not intentional, Doherty said in her 108-page ruling.

Judge Barbour said in his ruling that some records were destroyed or removed years ago.

Therefore, the appeals court said in its ruling last November, "they were not proper parties and cannot be bound by the settlement."

"Threatening to carry out terrorist crimes strikes at the heart of public order," the judges said in their ruling.

The two minutes' silence remains widely respected," he said in his ruling.

Scheindlin said in her ruling yesterday that the concern "makes no sense."