31.   California Attorney General Dan Lungren has asked the state Supreme Court to overturn a ruling hailed as a significant civil rights victory for lesbians and gays.

32.   Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote the opinion, which overturned a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in Manhattan.

33.   China has not formally demanded that Hong Kong overturn the ruling.

34.   Carty spent nearly two years in prison before the appellate division overturned the ruling.

35.   Courts here have rejected the Boy Scouts of America ban on gay members, a ruling later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.

36.   Cuomo said he would reconsider his decision if an appeals court overturned the ruling by Schwartz.

37.   Congress could have intervened to overturn the ruling, but did not.

38.   Fujimori could overturn the ruling and re-instate the citizenship, though this could anger the military.

39.   He also said Hong Kong was not trying to overturn the ruling.

40.   Hewlett can appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court, but legal experts said that his chances of getting the ruling overturned seemed slight.