If Monday's judgment sets a precedent – it could still face appeal – it will mean that all hearings will be reportable save for any restrictions a judge imposes case by case.
In the ruling now facing appeal, Wolf dismissed the DOC's arguments as "pretext" and said that officials at the prison went out of their way to deny services to Kosilek.
The case still faces appeals in state courts by Brown & Williamson and the four other largest cigarette companies.
The Cook controversy is just one of a number of simmering disputes: the sports of diving and fencing are also facing appeals from aggrieved athletes, and more discontent is expected as the remaining 300 slots on Team GB are filled.
The federal agency's listing of the animal under the Endangered Species Act faced an appeal from Alaska Oil and Gas Association, the American Petroleum Institute, the state of Alaska and indigenous Alaskans.
That was part of Abbey's prickly charm, his Janus-faced appeal.
A planned visit to the Capitol by President Obama was postponed until Saturday so that a face-to-face appeal would have greater impact on wavering lawmakers just before the vote.
His investigation, which has included a face-to-face appeal to Cardinal John J. O'Connor and a clandestine meeting with a shadowy informer, has at times seemed more suited to an espionage novel than the workaday life of a parish priest from New Jersey.
They were eventually freed unharmed through negotiations by local governments, but not before the Chinese government faced uncomfortable appeals from some Chinese online commentators for the People's Liberation Army to be deployed.
While South Korea remains frustrated with the North's persistence in its nuclear program, it has faced growing appeals from international relief agencies who say that the North's most vulnerable should not be punished for their government's deeds.
Chelsea's striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink faces an appeal hearing tomorrow as he seeks to overturn his recent red card against Arsenal.
