11.   Harrington concluded that the state gratuities law was modeled after the federal law and therefore the recent Supreme Court ruling applies.

12.   He said the ruling applies to cases with multiple plaintiffs, not to suits brought by the state.

13.   He said, however, that the ruling would not apply to death-penalty cases.

14.   His ruling applies to only Interactive Gaming and Global.

15.   Immediate political fallout may be diminished by the fact that the new presidential ruling applies only to poor foreign countries receiving funds for family planning.

16.   If the appeals courts disagree on how the ruling applies to churches or other types of buildings, there is a good prospect for further Supreme Court decisions.

17.   In future cases the court should make clear that its ruling applies only to residences, not to surrounding grounds or public areas.

18.   In lower courts, prosecutors have asserted with some success that the ruling only applies to gun cases.

19.   Moreover, the Supreme Court held that the ruling should apply retroactively to all cases with appeals pending, as the Williams case was.

20.   Not surprisingly, plaintiffs lawyers insisted that the Supreme Court ruling did not apply to their suits.