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Appeals
1997
Oklahoma Court of Appeals upholds death sentence of Timothy McVeigh
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 NZ (NZ 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 NZ)
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
US 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
Caryl Chessman, rapist executed after 12 years of appeals at 39
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, NZ Court of Appeals
1929
Congress creates Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
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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