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Events with high posterior probability

Nimfa C. Vilches	Vilches, in 2005, ruled on the trailblazing case (Herrera v. Alba and Hon. Nimfa Cuesta Vilches, G. R. No. 148220, June 15, 2005) on the admissibility of DNA evidence in Philippine courts.
Daniel J. Layton	One of Layton's landmark decisions was Guth v. Loft in 1939.
Ralph Thomas Scurfield	The resulting court decision, (Scurfield v. Cariboo Helicopter Skiing Ltd. (1993), 74 B. C. L. R. (2d) 224) on the doctrine of contributory negligence in Canadian law, resulted in a finding that Scurfield was 75 % responsible for the incident.
Steve Fuller (sociologist)	Fuller has made many statements relating to his support for intelligent design (ID), including two books, and in 2005, he testified for Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District and the decision, which ruled against intelligent design, cited Fuller's testimony.
Anthony Kennedy	In Hodgson v. Minnesota (1990), Kennedy upheld a restriction on abortion for minors that required both parents to be notified about the procedure.
Michelle Kosilek	In 2000, Kosilek sued the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC), claiming' violation of rights' under the Eighth Amendment.
Barbara Pariente	In January 2006, Pariente authored a decision in Jeb Bush v. Ruth Holmes, ruling one of Florida's three school voucher programs unconstitutional.
Francis M. Lyman	Francis M. Lyman was key in challenging the election and after hearing cases in the district and supreme courts, the People's Party were declared the winners on March 29, 1879.
Andy Martin	In 1993 the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals determined that his mother was acting in concert with him by filing a federal civil rights action against several Florida state officials.
Virginia v. Cherrix	In May 2009, a judge in the state of Minnesota ruled that Daniel Hauser, age 13, has been'' medically neglected'' as a result of his parents' refusal to allow him to receive chemotherapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma, the same disease at issue in Virginia v. Cherrix.
Sherman Booth	After he was refused, Booth and Gillespie's lawyer Byron Paine then appealed the decision, seeking to test a provision in an 1849 referendum that could be construed as allowing nonwhites to vote.
Prudence Crandall	A prominent abolitionist, Arthur Tappan of New York, donated $ 10,000 to hire the ablest lawyers to defend Crandall throughout her trials, Although a second trial in Superior Court decided against the school, the case was taken to the Supreme Court of Errors on appeal in July 1834.
Arthur W. Cutten	This ultimately went to the US Supreme Court in the case of Wallace v. Cutten, 298 U. S. 229 (1936) The government then went after him for income tax evasion.
Nauman Scott	On June 20, 1988, Judge Scott consolidated the schools of Bordelonville, Mansura, Moreauville, Plaucheville, and Simmesport in Avoyelles Parish to strengthen racial balance.
Ivan Fisher	On May 15, 1974, Fisher won a landmark decision in the Court of Appeals in the 2nd Circuit, United States vs. Toscanino, which in effect overruled Supreme Court rulings precluding American judicial review of foreign U. S. law enforcement conduct.
Jeremy Fogel	On December 15, 2006, in the case Morales v. Tilton, Judge Fogel ruled that California execution procedures violate the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution because inexperienced, untrained prison staff do executions in crowded, poorly lit settings ; Fogel wrote that'' implementation of lethal injection'' by California'' is broken, but... can be fixed.''
Richard D. Greene	He has often been appointed to sit with the Kansas Supreme Court, and in that capacity he has authored three published opinions for that court, In re Tax Appeal of Weisberger, 285 Kan. 98 (2007), State v. Alderete, 285 Kan. 359 (2007), and In re Trust D of Darby, 290 Kan. 785.
Stevan Lieberman	In September 1999 he was involved in a motion to dismiss patent infringement matter in Molnlycke Health Care AB v. Dumex Medical Surgical, a notable case in Internet law.
F. Lee Bailey	In 1966, Bailey successfully argued before the U. S. Supreme Court that Sheppard had been denied due process, winning a re-trial.
Sonia Sotomayor	In Didden v. Village of Port Chester (2006), an unrelated case brought about by the same town's actions, Sotomayor joined a unanimous panel's summary order to uphold a trial court's dismissal -- due to a statute of limitations lapse -- of a property owner's objection to his land being condemned for a redevelopment project.
Doug Christie (lawyer)	In January 2012, Christie became the first lawyer to successfully challenge an application under British Columbia's Civil Forfeiture Act, when the BC Supreme Court found that the retroactive forfeiture of a truck subsequent to a criminal prosecution was'' clearly not in the interests of justice.''
Greg Abbott	On March 2, 2005, Abbott appeared before the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D. C., where he defended a Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds.
Lawrence Wetherby	He endorsed the Supreme Court's 1954 desegregation order in the case of Brown v. Board of Education and appointed a bi-racial commission to oversee the successful integration of the state's schools.
Paul Cellucci	In 2013, Cellucci was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the United States Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.
Robert W. Sweet	On March 29, 2010, in Association for Molecular Pathology, et al. v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al., Sweet ruled that Myriad Genetics' patent on BRCA1 and BRCA2, genes linked to breast cancer, were invalid for the reason that, in Sweet's opinion, genes do not constitute patentable subject matter.
Ron Dellums	In 1990, Dellums and forty-four of his congressional colleagues sued then-president President George H. W. Bush in D. C. Federal District Court in 1990, in the case Dellums v. Bush, 752 F. Supp.
Nanette Kay Laughrey	In November of 2013, in the case of serial killer Joseph Franklin, Laughrey granted a stay of execution because'' a stay is necessary to ensure that the defendants' last act against Franklin is not permanent, irremediable cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment''.
Harry LaForme	In 2002, LaForme served on the Ontario Divisional Court panel that ruled that denying same-sex couples the right to marry was a violation of their civil rights ; his suggestion -- that marriage be redefined -- was subsequently adopted by the Court of Appeal for Ontario.
Christopher Hitchens	In January 2006, Hitchens joined with four other individuals and four organisations, including the American Civil Liberties Union and Greenpeace, as plaintiffs in a lawsuit, ACLU v. NSA, challenging Bush's warrantless domestic spying program ; the lawsuit was filed by the ACLU.
Clyde Summers	He submitted the AUD's brief in Hall v. Cole, 412 U. S. 1 (1973), in which the Supreme Court interpreted the Landrum-Griffin Act to permit the awarding of attorney's fees to successful plaintiffs.
Thomas G. Clines	The Fourth Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, on February 27, 1992, upheld his convictions, and Clines served his prison sentence.
George Takei	The California Supreme Court ruled that Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California, did not affect Takei's marriage and other same-sex marriages entered into before its passing on November 4, 2008.
Shilpa Shetty	In January 2007 outgoing Chief Justice Y. K. Sabharwal confirmed that Shetty had written to him requesting that he enunciate guidelines against frivolous lawsuits against artists, but that he had refused her plea on the grounds that she should have filed a formal petition instead of writing a letter.
Spencer S. Wood	In 1912, he was the plaintiff in a case before the United States Supreme Court, Spencer Wood v. United States, over pay he believed was owed to him while serving as Dewey s aide ; the court ruled against him on 1 April 1912.
Ken Cuccinelli	On June 26, 2012, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Cuccinelli's arguments, unanimously ruling in Coalition for Responsible Regulation v. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency that the EPA has the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as part of a strategy to address anthropogenic climate change and that the EPA's finding that'' greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may reasonably be anticipated both to endanger public health and to endanger public welfare'' was well-founded in science and public policy.
Virginia v. Cherrix	Virginia v. Cherrix is a court case in which the Commonwealth of Virginia sued to force Starchild Abraham ('' Wolf'') Cherrix (born in June 1990), aged 16 at the time of the court case, to undergo further conventional medical treatment for a highly treatable form of cancer, Hodgkin disease.
Royce C. Lamberth	When Judge Lamberth refused in September 2010 to lift the injunction forbidding the research pending the appeal of his ruling, the Obama Justice Department asked the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which will eventually hear the initial appeal of the case (possibly on an expedited basis), to issue an emergency order to override Judge Lamberth's refusal to lift the injunction, which would enable new embryonic stem cell research to continue (work on embryonic stem cell research that was already approved under the law prior to the order's issuance is unaffected ; it can be carried on even while the case is going on).
Ignacio Ramos	On September 25, 2007 a legal appeal concerning the conviction of Ramos and Compean was filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans.
Rick Warren	Two weeks before the 2008 U. S. general election, Warren issued a statement to his congregation endorsing California Proposition 8, which would amend the California Constitution to say'' only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California,'' thereby eliminating the right of same-sex couples to marry.
Louis Brandeis	His last important judicial opinion was also one of the most significant of his career, according to Klebanow and Jonas.
Lyndon LaRouche	During LaRouche's slander suit against NBC in 1984, Roy Innis, leader of the Congress of Racial Equality, took the stand for LaRouche as a character witness, stating under oath that LaRouche's views on racism were'' consistent with his own.''
Katherine Polk Failla	Among the cases that Failla worked on while in the Criminal Appeals Unit were United States v. Odeh, et al. (prosecution of Mohammed Odeh and many others for the 1998 United States embassy bombings) ; United States v. Sattar, Stewart, Yousry (prosecution of Lynne Stewart and others for passing information to and from convicted terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman,'' the blind sheikh'') ; United States v. Stein, et al. (the KPMG tax shelter fraud case) ; United States v. Coplan, et al. (tax shelters promoted by Ernst & Young LLP), and United States v. Rigas (prosecution of John Rigas for the Adelphia Communications Corporation fraud case).
Leander Clark	In 1922, the Supreme Court of Iowa decided the case in favor of the college, finding that the primary purpose of Clark's gift was not to perpetuate his name, but to support education.
Jay Bybee	On January 10, 2006, in an en banc decision, Judge Bybee wrote the opinion for the majority in the case of Smith v. Salish Kootenai College.
Sonia Sotomayor	Sotomayor voted with a 7 -- 6 majority not to rehear it and a slightly expanded ruling was issued, but a strong dissent by Cabranes led to the case reaching the Supreme Court in 2009.
Paul Vallas	On June 28, 2013, a state superior court judge ruled that Vallas did not complete a state-mandated school leadership program and was therefore not qualified to be superintendent in Connecticut.
Michael Crichton	In 1998, A United States District Court in Missouri heard the case of Kessler v. Crichton that actually went all the way to a jury trial, unlike the other cases.
Dan Morales	He also authored the controversial state interpretation of the Hopwood v. Texas case, which ended all affirmative action in higher education in Texas until the United States Supreme Court reversed Hopwood in 2003.
William O. Douglas	Douglas, joined by Black, furthered his advocacy of a broad reading of First Amendment rights by dissenting from the Supreme Court's decision in Dennis v. United States (1952) affirming the conviction of the leader of the U. S. Communist Party.
Henry Frederick Werker	Prominent decisions by Judge Werker included a 1981 ruling rejecting a petition by a National Labor Relations Board representative seeking a ruling that Major League Baseball owners had committed an unfair labor practice.
Leonard Peltier	The last two appeals were Peltier v. Henman, 997 F. 2d 461 in July 1993 and United States v. Peltier, 446 F. 3d 911 (8th Cir.
Stanley Williams	In 2001, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard Williams' appeal from the lower federal court.
Hank Skinner	On August 10, 2009, Skinner's Defense team introduced a new petition for a rehearing en banc with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Larry Klayman	Following Klayman's behavior in a 1992 trial in California federal court, Judge William Keller barred Klayman from his courtroom for life ; five years later, in a separate case in New York, Klayman's behavior led then district judge Denny Chin to issue a lifetime ban on the attorney practicing law before him.
Penny J. White	White became a subject of controversy in 1996 when she voted with the court majority in the 3-2 decision in the case of State v. Odom.
Murat Kurnaz	His case was one of nearly 60 that were submitted following the US Supreme Court's decision in Rasul v. Bush (2004), which ruled that detainees had the right of due process and habeas corpus to challenge the grounds of their detention.
James Atkin, Baron Atkin	Again in 1920, in Everett v. Griffiths Atkin held that Everett was owed a duty of care by a Board of Guardians who had detained him as insane on inadequate grounds.
Scott Ashjian	This decision was appealed, and the Nevada Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision on October 6, 2010 that Ashjian would remain on the November 2010 ballot for U. S. Senate.
Sarah Chayes	Specifically, she maintained the film may have'' the intent and the likelihood of inciting imminent violence or lawbreaking'', which is the specific standard laid out in the 1969 Brandenburg v. Ohio U. S. Supreme Court case for placing some limits on free speech.
Gale Norton	She vehemently defended Colorado's Amendment 2 in 1992, an amendment to the Colorado state constitution that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action from recognizing homosexual citizens as a Protected class, all the way to the US Supreme Court, where it was struck down as unconstitutional in Romer v. Evans.
Albert Greenwood Brown	On September 19, 2007, Judge Michael Daly Hawkins denied Brown's appeal and upheld lower court rulings.
Joseph Ganim	The case of United States v. Ganim was heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in late 2007, but Ganim's convictions were upheld.
Stephen C. Robinson	In 2009, Stephen Robinson ruled that voting practices in Port Chester, New York violated the Voting Rights Act and applied a controversial remedy allowing cumulative voting.
Mancow Muller	In 2004, Muller filed a suit against Smith, claiming that Smith was violating his First Amendment rights to free speech.
Marshall F. McComb	McComb did join the 1976 court majority in Marvin v. Marvin, in which the court ruled that although California does not recognize common-law marriage, people who cohabitate for long periods of time and commingle their assets are allowed to plead and prove marriage-like contracts for support and division of property.
Barbara Nitke	In 2001, Nitke filed a lawsuit, along with co-plaintiff the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, challenging the constitutionality of the Communications Decency Act, a federal statute prohibiting the publication of obscenity on the Internet.
Orly Taitz	2012 Kansas general election challenge On September 17, 2012, Taitz attempted to address a Kansas state board that had been reviewing a challenge to Obama's placement on the ballot, but her request to speak was denied.
Andrew Kleinfeld	But his background in private practice as a civil and sometimes criminal defense lawyer gives him a more libertarian bent, as evidenced in his opinion in Calabretta v. Floyd and his dissent in U. S. v. Gourde In 2007, a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed the class action certification in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., a lawsuit initiated by female employees of Wal-Mart against the company for gender discrimination.
Will Wilson	In 1950, he was elected to the nine-member Texas Supreme Court, the final authority in civil case s and juvenile matters in the state.
Myra Bradwell	In 1890, the Illinois Supreme Court acted on its own motion and approved her original application.
Vera Baird	In 2006 Baird commented that in calculating the sentence of a sex offender the judge had been too lenient ; she retracted the comments after her boss Lord Falconer supported the judge saying the fault lay not with the judiciary but with sentencing guidelines.
Bernard Cohn (politician)	The decision, Pico v. Cohn (1891) 91 Cal.
Oliver Hill	However, it was to be more than ten more years before many school districts in Virginia were significantly integrated, following the U. S. Supreme Court decision against freedom of choice plans in the Green v. School Board of New Kent County case of 1968, in which his law partner Samuel W. Tucker was lead counsel, supported by a young lawyer Hill had recruited, Henry L. Marsh, III.
Robert Cooter	Not the Power to Destroy : An Effects Theory of the Tax Power,'' a paper Cooter coauthored with Neil S. Siegel (Duke Law professor), provided the legal framework for the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act in 2012.
Barry G. Silverman	Since joining the Ninth Circuit, Silverman probably has become most known for writing the dissenting opinion for the 2-1 ruling in May 2002 that overturned a Sacramento federal judgement court's decision barring male prisoners the constitutional right to procreate and mail their sperm from jail.
Richard Fred Suhrheinrich	He made national news on December 22, 2005 as the opinion writer on ACLU v. Mercer County, where an appeals panel of the Sixth Circuit unanimously decided for the continued display of the Ten Commandments in a Kentucky courthouse.
Wesley Baker	Baker received a stay of execution in 2002, days before he was scheduled to die, when Governor Parris N. Glendening imposed a moratorium on the death penalty in the state to allow a study by Professor Raymond Paternoster of the University of Maryland, College Park to be completed.
Patricia Ann Millett	In February 2009, Legal Times reported that Millett was one of five Virginia residents recommended by the voluntary Virginia Bar Association lawyer organization to serve as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, along with Virginia state senator John S. Edwards, Virginia Supreme Court Justice Barbara Milano Keenan, University of Virginia School of Law professor James Ryan and former Virginia Supreme Court Justice John Thomas.
Madeline Lee Gilford	A 1953 article by the New York Times reported that she cited the First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment and Eighth Amendments to the United States Constitution as reasons to resist the Congressional questioning.
Michael Nutter	Nutter claims that this approach is sufficiently similar to one that was found to be Constitutional by the United States Supreme Court in 1968 in Terry v. Ohio, but it still has not been determined if this specific exercise is in violation of Fourth Amendment rights.
William L. Webster	Webster was the defendant of record in the Webster v. Reproductive Health Services case before the United States Supreme Court in 1989.
Tariq Ramadan	The government did not issue a decision on Ramadan's visa application, so the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on January 25, 2006 against the United States government on behalf of the American Academy of Religion, the American Association of University Professors and the PEN American Center -- three groups who had planned on meeting with Ramadan in the US -- for revoking Ramadan's visa under the'' ideological exclusion provision''.
Sardar Muhammad Aslam	However, as result of Constitution Petition No. 09 Of 2009 and Constitution Petition No. 08 Of 2009 in the Supreme Court of Pakistan, on 31 July 2009, the court held his elevation to Supreme Court as unconstitutional, void ab initio and of no legal effect.
David Fine	In 1987, after passing the Oregon Bar exam, Fine was denied admission to the Bar on the grounds that'' he had failed to show good moral character.''
Sonia Sotomayor	; Abortion In the 2002 decision Center for Reproductive Law and Policy v. Bush, Sotomayor upheld the Bush administration's implementation of the Mexico City Policy, which states that'' the United States will no longer contribute to separate nongovernmental organizations which perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations.''
Jeremy Fogel	As a Superior Court judge, Fogel on November 23, 1992 allowed the East Side Union High School District to screen Channel One News, whose content included commercials, in classrooms provided that students who opt out receive alternative assignments.
Claire Levy	Following the controversy, Levy signed on during the 2008 session as a co-sponsor on legislation to modify Colorado's adverse possession law, and introduced legislation that would prevent county and district court judges from presiding over cases involving another current or former judge from the same jurisdiction.
Henry L. Benning	In 1853 he was elected an associate justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, where he was noted for an opinion that held that a state supreme court is not bound by the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States on constitutional questions, but that the two courts must be held to be'' coordinate and co-equal''.
Jim Petro	In 2005, Petro became the first Ohio attorney general to argue a case in front of the United States Supreme Court in over thirty years ; he won the case by a vote of nine to zero.
Teresa Wynn Roseborough	Ms. Roseborough served as one of the principal attorneys for the Gore campaign in the litigation associated with the 2000 Presidential election, and she argued before the en banc Eleventh Circuit in the matters of Siegel v. LePore and Touchston v. McDermott on behalf of former Vice President Al Gore.
Fred Korematsu	Similarly, in his second amicus brief, written April 2004 with the Bar Association of San Francisco, the Asian Law Caucus, the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach, and the Japanese American Citizens League, Korematsu responded to Donald Rumsfeld v. Jose Padilla.
J. B. L. Reyes	He was the lead petitioner in the landmark Supreme Court case of Reyes v. Bagatsing, 125 SCRA 553 (1983), where he successfully sought injunctive relief against the mayor of Manila, who had wanted to prohibit demonstrations in front of the United States embassy.
Sam Adams (politician)	In 2007, the former couple, in a challenge to the state constitution, filed suit against the State of Oregon to dissolve their domestic partnership and divide Adams' future pension.
Hugo Black	He joined the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Miranda v. Arizona (1966), which required law enforcement officers to warn suspects of their rights prior to interrogations, and consistently voted to apply the guarantees of the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments at the state level.
Jean Schmidt	On June 28, 2012, a video was captured of Schmidt enthusiastically responding to erroneous reports from Fox News Channel that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was overturned by the Supreme Court in the landmark National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius ruling.
Peter Breggin	Breggin testified as an expert witness in the Wesbecker case (Fentress et al., 1994), a lawsuit against Eli Lilly, makers of Prozac.
David Friedland	In the wake of the 1964 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in Reynolds v. Sims, establishing the one man, one vote principle that state legislative districts must be approximately equal in size, Friedland filed suit in New Jersey Supreme Court on behalf of Christopher Jackman of the Laundry Workers Union and Winfield Chasmar, Jr. of the Paper Box Workers Union, challenging a system under which each county was represented by a single member in the New Jersey Senate.
James M. Beck	He joined the lawsuit against the New Deal-created Tennessee Valley Authority and argued the case in the Supreme Court in December 1935, declaring the organization unconstitutional and Socialistic.
Reuben Jeffery III	In 2013, Jeffery was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.
James Clark McReynolds	While in private practice, he was retained by the Government in matters relating to enforcement of antitrust laws, particularly in proceedings against the'' Tobacco trust'' (see United States v. American Tobacco Co., 221 U. S. 106 (1911)) and the combination of the anthracite coal railroads.