There was much speculation about his decision ; Vazquez appeared the next morning on " Good Day New York " on WNYW FOX5, and quashed rumors of a feud with " American Idol " producers or any of his competitors.

However in March 2009, the UK Competition Commission ruled that BAA must sell Stansted within two years, a decision quashed within a year, but later upheld .. On 20 August 2012, after losing a case at the Court of Appeal, BAA announced they would sell Stansted.

Sega quickly quashed 3Dfx's " Blackbelt " and used the NEC-based " Katana " as the model for the product that would be marketed and sold as the Dreamcast.

The class I-A station owners ' proposal to increase power fifteenfold was not immediately quashed, but the new II-A stations would make it effectively impossible for stations on the duplicated channels to do so, and the owners eventually lost interest.

While Charlie quickly quashed rumours that he would return to Busted, stating, " I wish Matt and James all the best with their future projects but I want to make it unequivocally clear that I have no interest what-so-ever in re-joining Busted and I never will.

The conference quashed a proposal of a two-tier structure that would have had the traditional Commonwealth realms, perhaps with defence pacts, on one tier, and the new members which opted for a republic, on the second tier.

Xie Lingyun served as an official in the Eastern Jin, during which time the rebellion was quashed by general Liu Yu ; however, this would turn out to be just a step in the general's career, later on he would overthrow the Eastern Jin dynasty and establish the Liu Song dynasty, as Emperor Wu.

However, on 22nd December 2011 the SFO and the Treasury Solicitors Department ( TSoI ) admitted factual errors in the information used to obtain the warrants against Consensus Business Group and Vincent Tchenguiz ; stated that the warrants should be quashed ; and that material seized under the warrants would be returned that day.

Some of the deputies were sceptical of making such a move, but the debate was quickly quashed when Franz Karmasin, leader of the German minority in Slovakia, said that any delay in declaring independence would result in Slovakia being divided between Hungary and Germany.

Father and son quashed reports that Koby would catch his dad for the return.

On 1 December 2010, Rudd was convicted of possessing 25g of marijuana on his boat in Tauranga, New Zealand, but later had his cannabis conviction quashed on the grounds that it would have stopped him from continuing to tour with the rock band.

In June 2008, Moore was told by the High Court that he would spend the rest of his life in prison. On 3 March 2011 Moore challenged the ruling in the European Court of Human Rights, with a view to having his sentence quashed and such sentences outlawed throughout Europe.

Joss Whedon quashed the rumors that Sarah Michelle Gellar would appear as Buffy in an interview with TV Guide, saying he didn't want the finale to " revolve around a guest star.

He said, " If there is justice in the UK I would be acquitted or the verdict would be quashed because it was unsafe.

Some of the deputies were sceptical of making such a move, but the debate was quickly quashed when Franz Karmasin, leader of the German minority in Slovakia, said that any delay in declaring independence would result in Slovakia being divided between Hungary and Germany.

Francis being in captivity after the battle of Pavia ( February 25, 1525 ), Lefèvre was condemned and his works suppressed by commission of the parlement ; these measures were quashed on the return of Francis some months later.

* 1989 – The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.

These include the Birmingham Six ( cleared in 1991 of planting an IRA bomb which killed 21 people in 1974 ), the Guildford Four ( cleared in 1989 of murdering five people in another 1974 IRA bombing ), Stephen Downing ( a Derbyshire man who was freed in 2001 after serving 27 years for the murder of a woman in a churchyard ) and Barry George ( who was freed in 2007 when his conviction for the 1999 murder of TV presenter Jill Dando was quashed on appeal ).

The conviction against the Bridgewater Four was quashed before the linguist in the case, Malcolm Coulthard, could produce his evidence.

The Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven were two sets of people whose convictions in English courts for the Guildford pub bombings in the 1970s were eventually quashed.

It was a sort of poetic justice that at the time of his own demise a new plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government, reportedly involving the use of Dominican arms by former Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, has been uncovered and quashed.

However, when several protesters were shot and killed by police in Mitchelstown in 1887, the findings of a common inquest were quashed because the killings had taken place at different times and in different places.

France, which is home to the world's largest cosmetics company, L ' Oreal, has protested the proposed ban by lodging a case at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, asking that the ban be quashed.

In 2009, approaches were again made for a reunited Spacemen 3 to appear at a summer festival, at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival ; however, Pierce quashed rumours saying he " wasn't interested " and added, " The split was so acrimonious and my view of him hasn't changed.

France, which is home to the world's largest cosmetics company, L ' Oreal, has protested the proposed ban by lodging a case at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, asking that the ban be quashed.

He then quashed some accusations against Pope Leo and held a Diet at Pavia.

He had been scheduled to sing the song at a Minnesota Twins game in 1992, but Roseanne Barr's notorious version, two days before his planned appearance, quashed that opportunity.

* 1950, 28 March: George Kelly at Liverpool for murder, but had his conviction quashed posthumously by the Court of Appeal in June 2003.

The Court of Appeal quashed his conviction posthumously in 1998 after hearing that crucial evidence implicating another Somali was withheld at his trial.

In 1583 he became junior proctor of the university, and in 1585 was elected master of Trinity Hall, of which he had been a fellow from 1578, but the appointment appears to have been quashed at court.

The commissions of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery were not renewed by the monarchs immediately succeeding Queen Victoria and in 1920 the Court of Criminal Appeal quashed a conviction recorded at Peterborough Quarter Sessions.

Namibian armed forces quashed the attempt at secession within a few days.

* Ali Dizaei, former Metropolitan Police Commander ( later quashed, subsequently convicted again at the Crown Court at Southwark )

In 1994 she represented the Defendant in, R v Carol Peters ( the appeal and re-trial ) in which the Court of Appeal quashed Peters ' murder conviction ( alleged temazepan poisoning and the inflicting of 39 stab wounds to her husband ) ordering a re-trial at which she was acquitted of murder, the jury accepting Baird's submissions that she was suffering from, what was at the time an evolving area of law, battered women syndrome.

The old charge of criminal recklessness was revived against him at a second court-martial before which he was summoned in 1718, but his old patron Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve intervened energetically on his behalf, and the charge was quashed.

On 24 May 2011, Davis ' conviction for the 1974 raid on the London Electricity Board was quashed by three judges at the Court of Appeal.

In June 1764 the king, at the instance of d ' Aiguillon, quashed a decree of the parlement forbidding the levying of new taxes without the consent of the estates, and refused to receive the remonstrances of the parlement against the duke.

The victor, Fiona Jones, was convicted of falsifying her election expenses in March 1999, and Alexander was to stand at the resulting by-election, but the conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal in April 1999 and Jones reclaimed her seat.

In 1912 he was convicted under the Incitement to Mutiny Act 1797 of publishing an article in The Syndicalist, as an ' Open Letter to British Soldiers ', urging them to refuse to shoot at strikers ( later reprinted as a leaflet, Don't Shoot ); his prison sentence was quashed after public pressure.

This also quashed a planned WWF Championship match with then-champion Bret Hart at the following pay-per-view event, the 1993 Royal Rumble.

The rebellion was quashed with Soviet tanks and troops, resulting in the loss of at least 125 lives.