Later that year the PTO issued a decision rejecting the patent, on the basis that the petitioners ' arguments that the plant was not " distinctive or novel " were valid.

The petitioners were pro-Confederate northern men who had been found guilty and sentenced to death by a military court for treasonous activities.

* 2010, a recall proposal aimed at mayor Ron Littlefield of Chattanooga, Tennessee failed after a judge of the Hamilton County, Tennessee circuit court ruled that too many of the petition signatures were invalid and that the petitioners had failed to properly adhere to the state's recall law, leaving " pages without dates.

At one time they owned over of land in the Township and were among the petitioners to form the Township.

Petitions on his behalf were presented to parliament, so strongly worded that the petitioners were committed to prison.

This rite declared that the petitioners, who were seeking reconciliation with God, solemnly retracted their vows and oaths they had made to God during the period intervening between the previous Day of Atonement and the present one ; this rite made them null and void from the beginning, entreating in their stead pardon and forgiveness from God.

The petitioners were indicted in July 1948 for violating a provision of the Smith Act.

The eleven petitioners were:

These petitioners were not charged with an attempt to overthrow the Government.

In Schenck, the petitioners, members of the Socialist Party, were convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 for printing and distributing circulars asserting that American citizens had a right to oppose the draft during World War I because, among other things, it violated the United States Constitution.

In Dennis, the petitioners were zealous Communists who organized for the purpose of teaching the “ Marxist-Leninist Doctrine ”.

At that day, however, there were too many petitioners and the king did not take them in his hands, which made her return without having delivered it.

Despite claims that this was offensive given the role of Yiddish speakers in the founding of the American labor movement and trade unions, petitioners from the Jewish Labor Committee and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America were ignored.

They also informed the Congress that " Land Jobbers " were facilitating unlawful encroachment on Native American land, which would produce " a bloody, ruinous & destructive War with the Indians ...." Hoping to create order out of this chaos, the petitioners therefore asked that:

The petitioners, creditors for £ 5, 837, were supported by other creditors for £ 62, 000 and opposed by creditors for £ 200, 000.

Bahadur Shah did nothing at this point ( apparently treating the sepoys as ordinary petitioners ), but others in the palace were quick to join the revolt.

It first ruled that the Odah petitioners were in fact asking for habeas corpus, as they were " plainly challeng the legality of their custody.

Much of the opinion was built around the Eisentrager ruling, which was based on Ahrens v. Clark ′ s holding that petitioners invoking Habeas Corpus must direct their claim to the court that has jurisdiction where they are held: therefore, since Eisentrager's German detainees were in China and clearly no US court holds jurisdiction there, they could not file a Habeas motion.

Chidambaram has been accused of hoarding black money abroad and several petitioners have challenged Chidambaram in the open media and in several noted columns to file a defamation case against them if the allegations were untrue.

*" In wearing armbands, the petitioners were quiet and passive.

The peasants sent petitioners to St. Petersburg, but those were arrested and punished, and a military corps was send to suppress the uprising.

Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White declared that the petitioners were asking the Court " to grant newsmen a testimonial privilege that other citizens do not enjoy.

In an opinion delivered by Justice John Marshall Harlan II, the Supreme Court decided in favor of the petitioners, holding that " Immunity from state scrutiny of petitioner's membership lists is here so related to the right of petitioner's members to pursue their lawful private interests privately and to associate freely with others in doing so as to come within the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment " and, further, that freedom to associate with organizations dedicated to the " advancement of beliefs and ideas " is an inseparable part of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The Claremont petitioners have been represented since 1995 by John Tobin, Scott Johnson and Andru Volinsky, all of Concord, New Hampshire.

* John Tinker ( Class of 1968 ), one of the petitioners in the Supreme Court case, Tinker vs. Des Moines Schools.

In October 2007, Edmondson indicted term limits and initiative rights activist Paul Jacob and two others on the grounds that they had illegally used out-of-state petitioners to collect signatures on a ballot initiative.

He held open courts for the receipt of petitioners and the dispensation of justice ; and in the disposal of business he was indefatigable.

It demanded the release of the Kentish petitioners, who had asked Parliament to support the king in an imminent war against France.

Its only religious requirement is indirect: all Shriners must be Masons, and petitioners to Freemasonry must profess a belief in a Supreme Being.

Garfield was one of three attorneys who argued for the petitioners in the famous Supreme Court case Ex parte Milligan in 1866.

On October 28, 1999, Judge June Green issued a brief opinion rejecting all three of the petitioners ' arguments.

In 1956, the Court further ruled that the Committee had the power to grant hearings to petitioners from the mandated territory.

On a personal level, he gave to poor people, petitioners, and prisons on a daily basis.

People started petitioning the King for relief against unfair judgments and as the number of petitioners rapidly grew, the King delegated the task of hearing petitions to the Lord Chancellor.

On December 17, 1874, the petitioners accepted the suggestion of Chilton County, even though the Chief Justice had not lived within its boundaries.

Some healing temples also used sacred dogs to lick the wounds of sick petitioners.

Near the end of his term in the Senate, petitioners asked Congress to prevent the handling and delivery of mail on Sunday because it violated biblical principles about the Sabbath.

Parliament, by a large majority, voted not even to hear the petitioners.

In addition, a large number of consumers throughout Europe, including over one million in the UK, and various doctors and scientists, had signed petitions by 2005 against what are viewed by the petitioners as unjustified restrictions of consumer choice.

Headland incorporated in 1884 with 26 white and 4 black petitioners.

The petitioners argued that the Kibbutz had dramatically changed its life style, having implemented differential salaries, closing the communal dining room, and privatizing the educational system and other services.

Holcomb, one of the petitioners, originally came from Symondsbury.

Originally called Plantation Number 5, it was one of six townships east of the Union River granted in 1762 by the Massachusetts General Court to an association of petitioners.

* Vice President Teofisto Guingona Jr. will join Bayan and other leftist groups as petitioners in their formal pleading before the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the law.

The town was granted in 1735 as Number One by Massachusetts Governor Jonathan Belcher to petitioners largely from Amesbury, Massachusetts.

Some form of malfeasance or misconduct while in office must be identified by the petitioners.