31.   Hundreds of people from mainland China swamped Hong Kong immigration offices Monday to find out whether a landmark court ruling will let them live here legally.

32.   In a landmark ruling, a Paris court ruled Wednesday that only sexual penetration can constitute rape.

33.   In a landmark ruling, an Israeli court jailed a factory foreman who coerced a woman employee to have sex with him under threat of dismissal.

34.   In a landmark ruling, the Swiss Federal Tribunal decided in December to transfer the Marcos Swiss bank deposits to an escrow account in the Philippines.

35.   In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court held Wednesday that government donations to religious shrines in Japan violate constitutional provisions that separate church and state.

36.   In a landmark ruling, a French court on Monday ordered Yahoo! to block French Web users from its auction sites selling Nazi memorabilia.

37.   In a landmark ruling, an Israeli court said some stores can remain open on the Jewish Sabbath.

38.   In March, the court issued a landmark ruling barring the promotion of a general who had been found by the army to have been guilty of sexual misconduct.

39.   In March, the court issued a landmark ruling barring the promotion of another general who had an affair with a subordinate.

40.   In September, the Supreme Court said in a landmark ruling that the embryos belonged to Ruth Nachmani.