"It's much more complicated than just--'Hey, we'll sell wine in grocery stores'," Republican Dan Newberry told Oklahoma City's News 9 in 2011, after refusing to hear a bill as chairman of the Senate's Business and Commerce Committee.
The Supreme Court effectively upheld the constitutionality of Proposition 209 in November 1997 by refusing to hear a challenge to its enforcement.
The Maryland Court of Appeals in Annapolis, by refusing to hear Agnew's latest appeal, affirmed a lower court's ruling that the Republican former officeholder must repay the state $147,500 he was judged in a civil action to have taken in kickbacks from highway contractors plus $101,235 in interest, a total of $248,735.
The Supreme Court remained silent Monday on race-conscious admissions policies in higher education, refusing to hear Texas' challenge to a ruling that its law school affirmative action program discriminated against whites.
At his war-crimes trial in 1987, Barbie walked out, refusing to hear testimony of his horrors.
In January, the Supreme Court dealt Microsoft a major setback by refusing to hear its appeal in a lawsuit that raises daunting questions about high-tech America's widespread use of temps.
The Secretary cannot be heedless of these factors in the sense, for instance, of refusing to hear relevant evidence bearing on them.
Now that some New York State judges have sued the Legislature for pay raises, a handful of them are refusing to hear cases in which clients are represented by lawyers who are legislators or their law firms.
The 1986 ruling declaring him incompetent was upheld in appeals of technical points that reached the United States Supreme Court, which in 1988 refused to hear the case.
A federal appeals court upheld the result, and the United States Supreme Court in 1998 refused to hear an appeal.
