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1997 Oklahoma Court of Appeals upholds death sentence of Timothy McVeigh

1996 Alexander Harman, judge, United States Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia 1969 - 1979, dies

1993 U.S. Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail

1990 New York court of appeals ends 2 year legal battle over 1988 America's Cup by refusing jurisdiction of case

1989 Appeals court restores America's Cup to U.S. after New York Supreme Court gave it to New Zealand (New Zealand protested US's use of a catamaran)

1989 New York City court of appeals overturns lower court decision and returns America's Cup back to U.S. (from New Zealand)

1989 New York Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from San Diego Yacht Club for using a catamaran against New Zealand. Appeals court eventually overrules

1988 U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism

1988 3-judge panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)

1984 Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a paternity suit

1980 U.S. appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran

1978 U.S. Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's owner Charlie Finley in June 1976

1977 Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell

1972 New York City Mayor John Lindsey appeals that John Lennon not be deported

1971 WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, Florida (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 3-judge U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

1962 U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to University of Miss

1961 Learned Hand, Chief judge of U.S. court of Appeals, dies at 89

1960 U.S. appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not obscene

1959 Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by U.S. Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)

1956 Hungary appeals for United Nations assistance against Soviet invasion

1953 U.S. Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport and not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling

1935 Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of M to admit (black) Donald Murray

1934 U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses"

1930 Ivor Richardson, Judge, New Zealand Court of Appeals

1929 Congress creates Court of Customs and Patent Appeals

1921 Alexander Harman, born in Athens, West Virginia, judge, United States Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia 1969 - 1979

1920 Basil Kelly, Lord Justice of Appeals, Northern Ireland

1912 Edward Jones, North Ireland lord justice of appeals

1911 Lord Brightman, British judge of appeals

1906 Edgar Unsworth, Justice of Appeals, Gibralter

1872 Learned Hand, born in Albany, New York, Chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals

1780 Continental Congress establishes court of appeals


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