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.

He was again acquitted, this time by a unanimous panel.

A defendant may be found guilty by a vote of two-thirds of the panel, but a death sentence requires a unanimous seven-member panel.