At the Royal Rumble, Orton failed to win the championship when he was disqualified when Rhodes tried to interfere.
"The Voice" has Frenchie Davis, graduate of the first "Idol" scandal, when judges disqualified her after erotic photos she took as a teenager surfaced.
The agency's administrator, Jane Garvey, sent the dispute to the General Services Administration when she disqualified herself from ruling on the issue, because she had favored the no-bid approach.
In 1996, Greg Norman, as the defending champion in the Greater Hartford Open, was in contention after two rounds when he disqualified himself for having used an unapproved ball.
Tunisia had made the play-offs when Fifa disqualified Cape Verde for fielding an ineligible player against them in their group game in September.
The new commission showed some toughness in Thailand's first-ever Senate elections in March, when it disqualified several candidates for campaign violations such as vote-buying, and ordered many re-runs.
Mr. Karzai did not want the complaints commission at all, viewing it as the source of his problems in 2009, when it disqualified hundreds of thousands of votes, forcing him into a runoff.
Iraq's Accountability and Justice Commission unleashed an electoral hand grenade this month when it disqualified some 500 (out of 6,500) candidates — many of them prominent Sunni Muslims — because of alleged ties to the Baath Party of Saddam Hussein.
Judge Smith, in a hearing Friday, held out little hope that he would rule in their favor, complaining that he had heard no evidence that the local canvassing boards were failing to follow the law when they disqualified the ballots.
The Teikoku Oil Company of Japan and D&S Petroleum of Mexico are the other two members of the consortium, which won when Pemex disqualified a competing group that included the China National Petroleum Corporation.
