High Court on Child Abuse The Justices avoided a sweeping ruling in addressing the rights of parents suspected of abuse.

A three-judge appeals court refused today Mary Beth Whitehead's request to suspend the sweeping ruling in the Baby M custody case during the appeal.

Yesterday, in a 5-to-4 decision, the court issued a sweeping ruling upholding Cleveland's school voucher program.

The center is being opened a month after the European Commission delivered a sweeping antitrust ruling against Microsoft that, if upheld, could force it to change its business practices.

Viacom, it should be noted, doesn't agree with the sweeping judicial ruling (which was a relatively sparse 30-pager), as is evident from the press statement we just received.

Another factor that makes a sweeping ruling less likely is the operation of the law itself, which does not work as a mandatory set-aside or numerical quota.

The Court's current term, now entering its final month, is bound to produce more famous cases, more sweeping rulings, more dramatic results than this little-noticed decision.

They ask judges to do this by creating small, case-specific rulings rather than broad, sweeping rulings.

In a sweeping ruling that left no room for doubt or delay, the Court ordered the immediate termination of the dual school system.

"This is a very sweeping ruling with tremendous ramifications," he said.