Word: upheld
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...Upheld a jury verdict awarding $625,000 damages to a man whose legs were amputated as a result of an infection traced to an insect bite. James Gallick, a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad crew foreman, had been bitten by a "large insect" (species unknown) while working near a pool of stagnant and putrid water on railroad property in Cleveland. In his suit, Gallick held that the insect would not have been there to bite him if it had not been for the pool. The railroad's lawyers argued that the connections if any, between the water and what happened...
Judge Arnold Raum's decision upheld the bureau's evaluation of the eight paintings at $9,300 instead of the $169,000 claimed. The baroness, whose income, mostly from dividends, is around $140,000 a year, was unimpressed: "I have nothing to do with the whole thing," she said. "What my tax lawyers do doesn't concern me in the least...
Painting in the Death House. Three Japanese appellate courts have upheld the original verdict, but the rapid turnover of Justice Ministers in ten Cabinet reshuffles since 1955 has helped keep Hirasawa alive. "If their hearts were in it, they could have read the record and signed the death warrant long ago," says one former Japanese judge. "But they were afraid, and I would...
...thesis lends itself to misinterpretation, and to the non-expert the terms in which the evidence is presented can be misleading. Furthermore, as might be expected in any book of its size, there are certain factual errors. Undoubtedly Coon's insistence on a "racial temperament" would not be upheld by a majority of anthropologists. It is too bad that the errors seem to strengthen the racist argument...
John Pringle, the varsity's "mechanical man," continued his unbeaten season in individual events by winning the back-stroke events, which Pringle usually swims. Bill Chadsey and Porky Pitts upheld the varsity honor, winning in 2:15.0 and 2:26.7, respectively...