Word: upheld
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...court's verdict upheld self-avowed Communist Eugene Frank Robel's right to work as a machinist for Todd Shipyards Corp. An employee of the Seattle shipyard for more than ten years, Robel was indicted in 1962 under the McCarran act when the Defense Department ruled that the firm was a defense industry. A federal district court freed Robel because the indictment failed to accuse him of being an active Communist with the intent to further the party's subversive aims; the Justice Department appealed the case to the high court...
...discontent still smolders, while 29 of the ousted students wage a legal battle for readmission. Their dismissal was upheld by the Louisiana State board of education last week in a bitter, clamorous hearing. As he told the board about the destruction of school property, Jones broke into tears and insisted that "we haven't lowered our academic standards -we've raised them." In fact officials of the Southern Regional Educational Board rate Grambling's faculty on a par with most Louisiana colleges, and 22% of its teachers hold Ph.D.s. The real point of the protest at Grambling...
Master Bruce Chalmers of Winthrop House, a Faculty member of the committee, upheld Ford's analysis. But another Faculty member, who asked to remain unidentified, said, "There are two possible interpretations of the terms of probation: either one thinks they are sufficiently unclear to determine ineligibility for this committee or one thinks they clearly prohibit admittance but may want to see this position waived in this particular case. However, this committee does not have the legal competence to do any more than make recommendations to the Faculty...
Arkansas law requires a minimum of six crewmen in both the operation and the switching of a freight train. It and similar laws in other states are the result of persuasive union lobbying, and have generally been upheld in the courts. But now, a three-judge U.S. District Court has struck down the Arkansas law in such a way as to put the others in jeopardy...
...claim of having been drugged when he confessed. But at a subsequent hearing, Jackson's confession was found to be untainted by drugs after all. He was retried, reconvicted and, because he had killed a policeman, resentenced to death. Last week the New York Court of Appeals upheld his sentence...