While the case has already wrought changes in state regulations of residents, New York appellate courts have virtually never upheld an award for punitive damages in a medical malpractice suit.
Even in France and America, where the position of the Wright brothers was upheld in virtually every court judgment, the defendants were able to manipulate the legal process in such a manner as to avoid substantial payments.
An aristocratic nihilist who once told his sister that he loathed "the thick-fingered clowns we call the people," Holmes believed that judges should vote to uphold virtually all laws, even the ones they hate.
Most overrides are upheld.
The responses from Lew Alcindor, notably one about Senator Ron Wyden's demand that the DOJ "reopen" an investigation into the CIA after the agency's own internal watchdog upheld the spying allegations, are virtually all redacted.
Amid pressure from animal rights groups, horse slaughter virtually ended in the United States last year, as courts upheld state laws banning it in Texas and Illinois, home to the nation's last three horse slaughterhouses.
The Navy upheld the convictions, but Mr. Meeks and virtually all the others were released from prison early in 1946 and discharged "under honorable conditions".
A study of immigration appeals by Chad Westerland, a professor at the University of Arizona, found that Judge Sotomayor had upheld the executive branch's deportation decisions 84percentt of the time — virtually the same as her court's average.
The verdict was upheld, but the supreme court reduced compensation to people affected by the spillage to virtually nothing.
On Friday, a Swiss court upheld the Swiss government's decision to force UBS to hand over client data, citing "virtually uncontrollable economic repercussions for Switzerland" if it had not done so.
Still, the canons of gender, class and fashion were, with a few remissions, upheld rigorously: "During the 19th century," Jill Fields notes in her fascinating account "An Intimate Affair," "virtually all free-born women in the United States wore corsets".
