Word: upheld
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...other, the court upheld a ruling that a union representing sheet metal workers in New York and New Jersey must significantly raise its non-white membership by August...
...Earl Warren Court. Seventeen years and five more Republican appointments later, the Burger Court has not undone the Warren legacies so much as consolidated them, affirming the earlier rulings even as it modified and diluted them. It was a court that could move boldly when it needed to. It upheld the right of the press to publish the Pentagon papers. It ruled unanimously that Richard Nixon could not withhold the damning White House tapes sought by the Watergate special prosecutor. But it did not reverse outright a single one of the major Warren doctrines...
...Burger Court was expected to apply the provisions of the Constitution narrowly rather than find in them an opportunity to mandate its own far- reaching solutions to social problems. Even so, it practiced its share of judicial activism. It upheld busing as a legitimate tool for desegregating schools and overturned laws that discriminated on the basis of sex. In its most difficult advance into new territory, it ruled that women have a right to abortion. "This court has moved into areas the Warren Court never came near," says American University Law Professor Herman Schwartz. Yet when it moved...
...federal securities law that were part of an elaborate scam involving fictitious names, phony Panamanian corporations and a Bahamas-based broker. Soon thereafter, U.S. marshals arrested him in Manhattan on the criminal charge that he had obstructed the SEC's investigation. If the SEC's civil charges are upheld, Levine could be forced to hand over $7.6 million in illegal profits and pay a $22.8 million fine. He could also be sentenced to as many as five years in prison and fined another $250,000 if he is found guilty on the criminal charge...
...next principle of the community declares "We shall at all times respect the opinions, wishes and presence of other members of the community." This principle cannot be upheld by the aforementioned remarks, nor can it be sustained when people are intimidated for expressing their opinions. I distinctly recall an example of this abuse. I was accosted and denounced because of my speech in favor of a proposal which did not suit the majority...