Word: upheld
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...Blue Laws, first passed in 1692, aroused violent controversy last year when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld their legality in a case involving a Kosher supermarket. (The proposed bill would permit the sale and delivery of Kosher meats on Sunday...
These preferences upheld the Committee's conclusion that the Room is used primarily for study breaks when there is not enough time to read a whole volume. Sports and detective stories had unexpectedly little support from the poll, James speculated that the low sports rating might be explained in part by the fact that "athletic types don't come to the Room that much...
Nevertheless, the Justice Department moved for a retrial, and Scales was convicted again by Judge Bryan in February, 1953. The Supreme Court upheld this conviction by a 5-4 decision last June...
...refusing to review a lower court decision, the U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld desegregation of a predominantly Negro school in the New York City suburb of New Rochelle-first Northern community found guilty of segregating Negroes by gerrymandering district lines...
They know, for example, that of all the provisions of the Act those covering foreign travel are constitutionally the weakest. In 1958, the Court upheld the freedom to travel in Kent v. Dulles, and although reluctant to specify if this freedom could be abused, it certainly did not insist that government officials do their best to limit it. In other words, as soon as the State Department initiates a repressive policy such as forcing subversives to state their affiliations on passport applications, it transforms its employees into contitutional interpreters. And foreign service officers are hardly competent to decide...