He was paid $760,000 between 2004 and 2006 in order to help prevent passage of legislation that Equitas said unfairly singled them out for unfavorable treatment regarding asbestos claims.

Recently, members of the Indian community have also been vocal in demonstrating for Hindu rights and protesting that their community has long been worse off than the Malay community, a situation compounded by unfavorable treatment as non-Bumiputras.

The opinion argued that the Social Security tax application was problematic as it "singled out then-sitting federal judges for unfavorable treatment".

A banking industry consultant, Philip S. Corwin, has said Mr. Brandt had threatened unfavorable treatment on bankruptcy policy issues for those who did not attend.

They also offer commentary about people, particularly the privileged and court officials, whose human frailties may result in unfair, unjust and other unfavorable treatment to others.

This limits public scrutiny over the private foundation, which entails unfavorable treatment compared to community foundations.

In these cases, the educational institutions singled out a group for unfavorable treatment based on the organization's purpose, leftist activism in the first case and Christian evangelism in the second.

"It is the intention of this court not to give Mr. Howe favorable treatment, nor unfavorable treatment," Erickson said, acknowledging that Howe lives in a "limelight" created by his successful baseball career.

But the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, ruled in his favor in 2002, holding that the state had singled out religion for unfavorable treatment.

Both have escaped unfavorable treatment in the news media.