Word: upheld
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...right was first extended to less solid property in 1741, when Poet Alexander Pope sued to prevent publication of certain letters of his that had fallen into a bookseller's hands, claiming that they were still his property. Pope was upheld-not on the ground of any right to privacy but rather that his property rights had been violated. Among other things, the ruling touched on the important right to refuse to communicate-or to choose with whom one will communicate...
...these organic microcosms, the Western concept of the individual, upholding and upheld by a written law, has no meaning at all; right action is a meld of custom and propriety demonstrated by the behavior of the sage. Written contracts are usually mere pieces of paper. "No Chinese would understand Shylock's claim to a pound of flesh in The Merchant of Venice," says Harvard Law Professor Jerome Cohen. "The important thing is human relations. You imply a lack of trust when you allow for disputes in contracts." If disputes arise, they are settled through face-to-face negotiations...
After a U.S. appeals court upheld their convictions last January, the Redmonds appealed to the Supreme Court on the ground that "receipt of obscenity for personal use" has never before been labeled a crime under the socalled Comstock Statute (Title 18, Section 1461, U.S. Code), which is now 94 years old. That statute, argued the Redmonds' lawyers, was "directed solely at those engaged in the dissemination of obscenity to others." To apply it to private recipients, who "obviously outnumber disseminators many times over," would involve the Government in enormous enforcement problems...
Holworthy Hall, the training grounds for Adams' athletes, upheld its traditional title as the Yard's foremost armpit...
...Hills won a $30,000 judgment. By a vote of 5 to 2, New York's highest court upheld the verdict. In appealing to the Supreme Court, Time Inc. argued that the First Amendment permits the press to make honest mistakes in reporting legitimate news. The Hills answered that the mistake was so egregious as to be outside the protection of the First Amendment...