Word: overturn
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...Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death by hanging. Sheikh's lawyer, Abdul Waheed Katpar, said the verdict had been based on "provenly planted evidence." The three other defendants in the case, Salman Saqib, Fahad Naseem and Sheikh Adil, were given life sentences. Their lawyer asked Sindh High Court to overturn their convictions, which he said were based on flimsy evidence. MALAYSIA Mixed Bag The main Islamic opposition party, Pas (Parti Islam se-Malaysia), retained one of the two seats it was fighting in the northern state of Kedah. The vote was seen as inconclusive on support for strict Islamic laws...
...Faculty’s vote to accept this policy change opened a pandora’s box of questions about Harvard’s resources for and responsibility to sexual assault victims and even suggestions that the Faculty overturn its decision...
...abetting Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, in part by setting Booth's broken leg after the assassination; in Saginaw, Mich. States passed resolutions proclaiming the elder Mudd's innocence, and Presidents Carter and Reagan wrote letters saying they believed it. Still, they said, they could not officially overturn the decision of the military court...
...courts will occasionally refuse to enforce non-negotiated or “adhesion” contracts whose terms are “unconscionable;” courts will also sometimes void contracts that are viewed as contrary to public policy. Yet the legal system is extremely hesitant to overturn agreements signed by both parties, and workers shouldn’t have to rely on the unpredictable intervention of a federal judge...
Lisa C. Lightbody ’03, a CASV member who also spoke at the rally, said the main objective of the rally was to mobilize the Faculty to overturn the change, which was made official last week when the full Faculty passed a revised Handbook for Students that included the new Ad Board policies...