If by "large ordeal" you mean "he was admin again within 2 days of it being removed", sure, okay. If by "large ordeal" you mean "users made a big fuss about it", sure, whatever, but that's not exactly a fantastic metric for anything.
In Vox's case hampa banned him permanently. (Vox was kind of a tool to be honest)
That is the only case i can think of when a staff complaint became successful.
no, I was permabanned for banning some guy for a day for something dumb I can't remember and was unbanned a little while later for doing some form of community service or something fuck my memory
he deserved it but apparently Vox didn't agree so permaban it was
also hi toribash i love you bishop and i love you sid and i love you adrian
gorman get the fuck on irc
bye again