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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. The City Council had pushed through the so-called equal benefits law over the mayor's veto. In that sense, the ruling was the latest skirmish in a 15-year struggle between mayors and the City Council over just how much power the 1989 City Charter revisions gave to each side.