Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Specifically, Jackson objects to a rule that allows states to require that candidates win at least 20% of the vote in a congressional district to pick up any convention delegates. He would also like to overturn the winner-take-all provisions in seven large states...
Upenn President Sheldon Hackney said h would not overturn the council's decision...
...that the Northwest has very low electric rates as a result of its cheap hydroelectric power. If the entire cost of all Whoops bonds were pushed into Northwestern electric bills, the rates would still be below the national average. Chemical Bank may ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Washington ruling and make the Northwestern utilities live up to their contracts...
With gaudy antiabortion posters set up in the normally staid Senate chamber, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah and his conservative allies pressed for a constitutional amendment that would overturn the historic 1973 Supreme Court decision (Roe vs. Wade) that guarantees women a constitutional right to abortion. "The country is on a slippery slope to infanticide," warned Senator Jeremiah Denton of Alabama. "Even dogs have more protection than the unborn," said Hatch. But after two days of speeches in a largely empty Senate chamber, the ten-word Hatch amendment fell 18 votes short of the required two-thirds majority last...
...promote religion." Indeed, after the decision was announced, public school educators and teachers' unions charged that the decision could lead to the draining of funds from an already strapped state educational system. Said Matthew Stark, executive director of the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, which had tried to overturn the statute: "The public school system has been the great socializer. It's one of the few common meeting grounds in America. The Supreme Court decision is threatening the very existence of that system...