31.   A state judge upholds the deadline but says further recounts can be considered later.

32.   A state judge, while sympathetic to the residents, rejected their lawsuit against Ozarka, ruling that the question of fault was irrelevant.

33.   A state supreme court judge last month said LILCO was owed the money for excess taxes paid for the defunct Shoreham plant.

34.   A state judge dismissed the lawsuit, saying it was premature because no ads had yet been bought.

35.   A state judge has given the upstate village of Kiryas Joel another chance to continue operating a separate public school district for its disabled children.

36.   A state judge has placed a gag order that prohibits anybody with knowledge of the events that night from talking with news organizations.

37.   A state judge has struck down a law that has denied Medicaid benefits to thousands of needy legal immigrants in New York.

38.   A state judge rules that prosecutors withheld evidence that one of the boys probably set the fire.

39.   A state judge was threatening to do the same with public school finance.

40.   A state judge, taking the stand Tuesday at the trial of a stockbroker charged with plotting to kill her, calmly testified that many defendants wanted her dead.