Word: overturning
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Three defeated independent candidates for the Cambridge City Council have filed suit in Middlesex Superior Court to overturn the election of a liberal. Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) majority to the Council...
Baird--who directs two national groups fighting overpopulation--is presently the defendant in a U.S. Supreme Court case which threatens to overturn a Massachusetts law prohibiting sale of contraceptives to the unwed. Baird has been jailed seven times for violating contraceptive laws...
...students charged Bloustein with favoring the construction of the highway. Bloustein had issued a statement saying that he would not overturn the 1969 resolution of the Rutgers board of governors which does not oppose the construction site of the highway designed to ease expected air and noise pollution in the area...
...rate, Hakim will not be going back immediately. On October 22, his lawyer, David Nelson, appeared in Equity Session of Suffolk Superior Court, and obtained a restraining order postponing the execution of the extradition order to December 17. In the mean time, efforts are being made in Missouri to overturn his original conviction. Nelson has also filed a writ of habeas corpus in an attempt to kill the extradition proceedings...
...favor of mere results, says Stanford's Gerald Gunther, a decision may be "valid only as long as you have a majority of five votes. As the reasons get weaker, a later judge is freer to follow his own likes and dislikes. A decision is then easier to overturn...