Word: overturned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...argues, there are enough conservative new faces on the Supreme Court today to overturn past decisions...
Although other bar owners may not have had to overturn laws for the right to serve alcohol, they and Kuelzer concede that JFK St. can get rowdy on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. But they place the blame on the management of a couple of bars, and specifically cite a serious fight that occurred last July...
...specter is haunting China -- the specter of capitalism. But the octogenarian leaders in Beijing don't come right out and say that. They call their bugaboo "peaceful evolution," an innocuous-sounding code phrase for what they think is an onslaught led by the U.S. to overturn their socialist system...
Postponement is a luxury Bush can no longer afford. The President has already vetoed legislation broadening abortion rights five times, and a sixth, even more controversial proposal will hit his desk soon. This time the question concerns abortion counseling. Congress has voted to overturn the "gag rule," the federal regulation that forbids doctors at 4,000 federally funded family-planning clinics even to mention the abortion option to pregnant women. Another veto is expected, but the White House and Republican campaign advisers are split over the political repercussions...
...recent years a number of state laws restricting abortion have been winding through lower-court challenges toward a final showdown in the Supreme Court. Tracking their progress has been like witnessing a car crash in slow motion, because any of them might lead to an explosive ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that created abortion rights...