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In a victory for the Bloomberg administration, the state's highest court narrowly ruled yesterday that the mayor does not have to enforce city laws that he deems to be illegal. The ruling gives Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg a powerful weapon in that he does not have to enforce laws that the City Council passes through mayoral overrides, as it has often done in recent years. In siding with the mayor, the majority seemed to give legal standing for the first time to what has been a common, if disputed, practice in the Bloomberg administration, as well as previous mayoralties.