Word: overturning
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...Anywhere but Texas," was how Summers had put it to Maartje Kok-de Bruijn, an Amsterdam bookstore clerk who led a European campaign to overturn his 1991 conviction - based solely on circumstantial evidence - for contracting the stabbing death of his parents and uncle. "Greg just didn't want to be buried in the state that was going to kill him," she says. Kok-de Bruijn became Summers' pen pal in 1992, visited his Huntsville prison 30 times and witnessed his Oct. 25 execution by lethal injection. Shortly before his death, Summers accepted a last-minute offer to be buried...
...have been too revved up to restrain his grammar. The Louisville, Ky., attorney, who has long dreamed of arguing before the highest court in the land and who in recent months had a sign in his office that said "Washington D.C. or Bust," has been on a mission to overturn the racial guidelines Kentucky's Jefferson County adopted to keep its public schools integrated. The student-assignment policy, which the local school board voted to keep even after a judge lifted a desegregation order in 2000, tries to maintain black student enrollment at each school between 15% and 50%. After...
...December 20 at 9:30 a.m., Tice will stand before Judge Everett Martin, Jr., of the Fourth Circuit court of Virginia and, at the judge's discretion, could go free. The rare decision by a Virginia court to overturn a capital murder conviction may bolster the cases of the two other Navy sailors convicted along with Tice. Those men, Danial Williams and Joseph Dick, Jr., are serving life sentences and have filed petitions asking for clemency from Virginia governor Tim Kaine on the grounds that no physical evidence connected them to the scene of the crime and their confessions were...
...court’s decision in the two cases—Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education—may overturn its landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education...
...became pregnant through rape or incest). If voters choose to keep the law, challenges to its constitutionality are expected, quite possibly all the way to the Supreme Court. That is exactly what the law's backers, who want it to serve as a test case to try and overturn Roe v. Wade now that the court has two new conservative justices, had in mind when they drafted...