Chinese immigrants were blamed for importing the opium-smoking habit to the U. S. The 1903 blue-ribbon citizens ' panel, the Committee on the Acquirement of the Drug Habit concluded, " If the Chinaman cannot get along without his dope we can get along without him.

However 4 out of 5 people colonised with Helicobacter pylori do not develop ulcers, and an expert panel convened by the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research concluded that ulcers are not merely an infectious disease and that mental factors do play a significant role.

A study published in 2012 concluded that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS ) relies on the recommendations of an American Medical Association advisory panel.

A NASA investigative panel later concluded that pilot error caused by poor visibility due to bad weather had been the principal cause of the accident.

The panel concluded that See was flying too low to the ground during his approach, probably as a result of the poor visibility.

An expert panel convened by the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research concluded that ulcers are not purely an infectious disease and that psychological factors do play a significant role.

Ownership of the domain was returned to the IFPI in late November, when a WIPO arbitration panel concluded that " the Disputed Domain Name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark in which the has rights " and that the Pirate Bay's representative " registered and using the Disputed Domain Name in bad faith " and failed to adequately rebut the IFPI's contention that he " has no rights or a legitimate interest in the Disputed Domain Name.

Only two of the members of the panel ( Liebman and Schaumber ) would remain on the Board, but the Board concluded that these two members constituted a quorum of the panel and thus could make decisions on behalf of the entire Board.

The panel concluded that both Israel's naval blockade of Gaza and the interception of the flotilla " were found to be legally pursuant to the rules of international law ".

Although its hardware is still considered state-of-the-art, the overall package is an " extremely immature computer system ," the panel concluded.

This review panel then issued its own 24-page report ( PB 211-014, available from NTIS ), which concluded that " the 1960-63 Corvair compares favorably with contemporary vehicles used in the tests ... the handling and stability performance of the 1960-63 Corvair does not result in an abnormal potential for loss of control or rollover, and it is at least as good as the performance of some contemporary vehicles both foreign and domestic.

After 11 days of open hearings in August, the panel concluded that there were what it called " covert attempts " to pressure Chung into discontinuing his polls.

The panel concluded that Dr. Chung is " an honest witness who was telling the truth in relation to the matters he is complaining about ", but " neither Lo Chief Executive's Senior Special Assistant nor the vice chancellor disclosed the full and truthful extent of what was said in meetings ".

This review panel concluded that " the 1960 – 63 Corvair compares favorably with contemporary vehicles used in the tests ... the handling and stability performance of the 1960 – 63 Corvair does not result in an abnormal potential for loss of control or rollover, and it is at least as good as the performance of some contemporary vehicles both foreign and domestic.

The panel concluded, as part of its 305 page report, that " simply because a member sponsors an earmark for an entity that also happens to be a campaign contributor ... does not support a claim that a member's actions are being influenced by campaign contributions ".

Once the procedure before the panel is concluded, the panel will issue a report.

A 2005 review by an HRSA-funded scientific panel concluded that vomiting alone does not reliably remove poisons from the stomach.

In April 2011, Ban Ki-moon published a report by a UN-appointed panel of experts, which concluded that as many as 40, 000 people were killed in the final weeks of the war between the Tamil Tigers and government forces.

The now-declassified report of the scientific panel appointed to evaluate the event concluded that it was " Probably not the event of a nuclear explosion "

Like the rest of the Army, the Aviation Section concluded that Reserve officers were the solution to its manpower needs and sent a panel of three representatives from each of six U. S. universities to Toronto May 7 – 11 to study Canada's pilot training program.

A prosecution inquest panel has concluded: ' It is highly likely that Ozawa is an accomplice ' in a scandal involving the purchase of land in Tokyo, ' and should therefore stand trial '.

An expert panel concluded that " concentrations were considered too low to cause overt adverse health effects in the exposed population.

Indeed, a panel of experts concluded in 2008 that it should " only be used as a last resort ".

Most of the U. S. federal courts of appeal have adopted a rule under which, in the event of any conflict in decisions of panels ( most of the courts of appeal almost always sit in panels of three ), the earlier panel decision is controlling, and a panel decision may only be overruled by the court of appeals sitting en banc ( that is, all active judges of the court ) or by a higher court.

A case decided by a multi-judge panel could result in a split decision.

Although a Rotal decision can be appealed, if not res judicata, to a different panel ( turnus ) of the Rota, there is no right of appeal from a decision of the Signatura, although a complaint of nullity on formal grounds is possible.

Readers do not usually make an access decision but send a card number to an access control panel that verifies the number against an access list.

The plaintiffs appealed the decision of the district court to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, filing their initial brief on May 22, 2000, and arguing the case on October 5 of the same year in front of a three-judge panel.

The investigation in the case was halted on 30 June 2009 by a decision of a panel of 18 judges of the Audiencia Nacional.

Lippe's Parliament was blocked from voting on the matter by the German Empire's Diet, which instead created a panel of jurists selected by the King of Saxony to evaluate the evidence concerning the historical marital rules of the House of Lippe to render a decision in the matter, all parties agreeing to abide by their judgment.

In October 2005, the House of Lords dismissed the Alliance's appeal against this decision, with an unusually large panel of nine Law Lords holding that the 1949 Act was a valid Act of Parliament.

However, the WTO Panel in the 1999 case would later rule that the 1981 decision did not constitute a legal instrument within the meaning of GATT-1994, and hence was not binding on the panel.

The district judge's decision was reversed by a 3-judge panel of the U. S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in March 2010.

In some places the panel ( be it judges or a jury ) is required to issue a unanimous decision, while in others only a majority vote is required.

Two progressives, professor Robert Jensen and journalist Norman Solomon, resigned from Project Censored's panel of national judges over the decision to highlight the 9 / 11 conspiracy theories of Steven E. Jones, a founder of Scholars for 9 / 11 Truth, in Censored 2007.

After rejections from the Football League and the FA, the decision was eventually passed on to a three-man arbitration panel, the outcome being two to one in favour of the move.

However, these justices formed the minority of the panel, and the earlier decision was upheld.

In its unanimous decision, the panel said, " The overwhelming weight of the evidence indicates that the November 4, 2008 election was conducted fairly, impartially and accurately ", and said that Franken should be issued a Certificate of Election.

On the morning of September 23, the panel reversed the three-judge ruling in a unanimous decision, arguing that the concerns about the punch-card ballots were outweighed by the harm that would be done by postponing the election.

The decision was appealable to a NAFTA panel.

In addition, the panel took the controversial decision of refusing to allow the International Trade Commission to reopen the administrative record and in fact ordered the International Trade Commission to issue a negative determination after it reached another affirmative determination based on the existing record.

Unlike the Lumber III panel, however, this panel's decision was unanimous.

* On August 15, 2005, the U. S. said it would not abide by the NAFTA decision because the Section 129 determination superseded the decision being reviewed by the NAFTA panel.