Richard J. Cardamone, writing for a three-judge panel, reviewed the case.

Judge Jerre Stockton Williams wrote for a panel that compelled arbitration.

Judge Alito, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel, ruled in his favor.

Writing for a unanimous three-judge panel, Judge Alito decided that the teacher had no free speech claim.

Holmes wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel holding that a criminal defendant was improperly ordered to pay immediate restitution to the victim of his crime.

Writing for a unanimous three-judge panel, he ruled against three sailors who were dismissed for homosexual conduct despite otherwise good service records.

Last year, Judge Alito, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel, declined to extend that decision to boyfriends and fiancés.

But Judge James L. Oakes, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel, said the disparities were still excessive.

In 2000, he wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel that struck down a Pennsylvania school district's antiharassment policy on the grounds of free speech.

Judge Alito, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel, reversed that decision.