Quick prevailed, not because he could prove a pattern of anti-male animus at the plant but because, to put it baldly, only men have testicles.
These alarming numbers should have given the agency sufficient ammunition to prove a "pattern" of violations, a necessary precondition for shutting the operation.
Apple began with a full-fledged assault, hurling numerous trademark claims, design and technical patent claims and more; after judge Koh ordered Apple to pare it down, the company has focused on a few key patents, the simplicity of its design and working to prove a pattern of copying by Samsung.
In the waning days of the Clinton Administration, the acting head of Justice's civil-rights division, Bill Lann Lee, threatened to sue Los Angeles to prove a "pattern or practice" of excessive force and rights abuses unless the city consented to federal oversight.
When I asked Corbett administration spokesperson Ron Ruman whether the administration had any data that proved there was a pattern of voter fraud in PA that justified passing the voter ID law, he responded that there is no data that proves there was or is voter fraud in Pennsylvania.
In its decision, the N.B.A. cited just two violations, perhaps suggesting that it could not prove a longstanding pattern of conduct.
Geared toward ongoing organized criminal activities, the underlying tenet of RICO is to prove and prohibit a pattern of crimes conducted through an "enterprise," which the statute defines as "any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity".
We therefore proved the possibility of a pattern of oscillations in which one torus produces traveling waves of constant phase shift, while the second torus shows synchronous in-phase oscillations, at N-times the frequency shown by the traveling waves.
They seek to prove not only that a pattern of race-based stops exist, but that department supervisors have acted with "deliberate indifference, the legal term for burying your head in the sand," Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, the organization which brought the lawsuit, said in an interview.
