11.   Critics have already filed at least three lawsuits to block enforcement.

12.   He had already temporarily blocked enforcement of the law last fall.

13.   Holford, however, lost his trial fight to block enforcement of the ordinance, and the city has rolled up victories since then in this literal turf battle.

14.   In July another three-judge federal court, in New York, ruling in a separate lawsuit, also blocked enforcement of the law.

15.   In her decision Wednesday, Judge Pfaelzer blocked enforcement of provisions barring illegal immigrants from public school education, nonemergency medical treatment and welfare and other benefits.

16.   In his November decision, Henderson blocked enforcement of the measure.

17.   In announcing her decision, Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum said she was lifting an order she had issued last week that temporarily blocked enforcement of the zoning law.

18.   In the decision last week, a federal district judge in Philadelphia temporarily blocked enforcement of a new law, the Communications Decency Act.

19.   Last month, a federal district court in Philadelphia blocked enforcement of the CDA, saying that the law violates First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech.

20.   On Tuesday a federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of the new law pending a hearing next week.