"Those people aren't having fun," Golub said, "and isn't that what we're supposed to be, a fun business that brings people together?" It was typically that way in Portland, a one-team town swept up in Blazermania until a pattern of off-court transgressions earned the offending players a collective national reputation.
Nor had female farmers proved a pattern of bias, the court found.
Timema males, in sexual species of Timema, show a consistent pattern of courting behavior.
Ms. Adams suggested that "cases tend to go away" and were settled out of court if a pattern of discrimination was formally established.
They found "a pattern of unconstitutional policing" and a municipal court system inflicting "unnecessary harm" under a drive to raise more revenues for the city.
Jack Straw's spiteful refusal to allow Biggs to leave Norwich prison continues a pattern of bureaucratic vindictiveness that began when the courts treated the robbers as if they were worse than killers.
But there have been enough recent Supreme Court decisions of a different sort to reveal a pattern of intervention in areas of traditional district court discretion.
As an incentive for Microsoft to comply with the terms of the decree, however, the court specifically reserves the right to extend the term of the decree for up to two years upon a finding that Microsoft has engaged in a pattern of willful and systemic violation of the court's decree.
"The government's delay," Mr. Hogan said, "follows a pattern of the Secret Service stonewalling plaintiffs and ignoring court orders, depriving African-American agents of the fundamental evidence of race discrimination that is key to their claims".
The Washington Post, after an eight-month investigation, said "internal police files and court records reveal a pattern of reckless and indicriminate gunplay by officers sent into the streets with inadequate training and little oversight".
