Sinn Féin for nine years. (It merged with two other organisations to form Fine Gael in 1933.) Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin members continued to boycott the Dáil. At a special "Ard Fheis" in March 1926, de Valera proposed that elected members be allowed to take their seats in the Dáil if and when the controversial Oath of Allegiance was removed. When his motion was defeated, de Valera resigned from Sinn Féin; on 16 May 1926, he founded his own party, Fianna Fáil, which was dedicated to republicanising the Free State from within its political structures. He took most Sinn Féin TDs with him.
Clinton Fein Court for the Northern District of California made a divided decision on the lawsuit. Fein filed an Supreme Court appeal, which he won in 1999. In June 1999, the U.S. government sent Fein an order to reveal a user of Annoy.com's e-card service. Earlier, in April 1999, the University of Houston tried unsuccessfully to obtain the website's records. The government later ordered Fein to stop discussing details of this investigation, its existence or its application. In "United States v. ApolloMedia", Fein argued that this gag order violated the First Amendment and the statutory requirement that it have a definite duration.