Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrote: "Our first duties are not to our country. We belong first to God and next to our race." Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin, a longtime activist who has marched against Southern white racism as well as the war, conceded that many latter-day dissenters disown any religion but upheld their moral right to resist the draft laws...
Judge Mitchell upheld the broad interpretation of the right of initiative: "I ... rule that whatever the Cambridge City Council may lawfully do of its own motion may be accomplished by citizens of the City of Cambridge by initiative petition...
...ORLEANS--The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Friday upheld the conviction of LSD advocate Timothy Leary...
Colorado (where marijuana sale can constitute a capital offense), Rhode Island, and Oregon, have had similar test cases. A Rhode Island state court is still considering the issue. In the other two states the statutes were upheld...
...Upheld the right of a union to collect union-imposed fines from members who ignore a majority strike vote and cross the picket line. In dissenting, Justice Black noted that the National Labor Relations Act makes it an unfair labor practice for a union to "restrain or coerce" employees from such acts. Black expressed mystification as to why fines did not constitute such coercion...