1.   Although a federal judge shortly afterward ordered a stay of execution, that ruling was expected to be quickly overturned.

2.   A federal court ordered a stay on new government telephone regulations Friday so that GTE Corp. and other local phone companies could present oral arguments against the rules.

3.   In one instance, Harris was strapped into the gas chamber when a stay was briefly ordered.

4.   Days later, however, the court ordered a stay in their release pending resolution of a dispute over the constitutionality of their sentences.

5.   Judge Donna McGillis of the Federal Court of Canada has ordered a stay in the order that would have sent Ryszard Paszkowski back to Poland on Wednesday.

6.   That action is in abeyance because an Indian court has ordered a stay on it until a decision is reached on whether the commission has jurisdiction.

7.   The state court, though, went home without ordering a stay.

8.   But the prosecution opposed provisional release and asked the court to order a stay of the decision if release was granted.