1.   Although the Croatian courts based their refusal to hand Walaschek over on legal grounds, U.S. and Croatian officials familiar with the case say the decision had political overtones.

2.   Brown and its supporters said the appeals court wrongly based its ruling on a presumption that women and men are equally interested in intercollegiate sports.

3.   But the court based its ruling on an earlier consent decree, not on broad antitrust law.

4.   But such a ban has been upheld by a federal appeals court based in Virginia.

5.   Federal appeals courts based in Chicago and New Orleans had thrown out the claims.

6.   He said the court had based its ruling on a mistaken assertion that the commission had not held enough public hearings on the project.

7.   In the Meinhold case, the court based its decision on a narrow interpretation about the specific wording of the old policy, she said.

8.   The appeals court had based its ruling on interpretations of federal court precedent.

9.   The appeals court based its decision on the fact that no non-commercial advertisement had ever appeared on the Spectacular.

10.   The appeals court based its ruling on a standard treatise in antitrust law, written in part by Elhauge.