Word: upheld
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...case came into my office today," says Aldrich, "I wouldn't touch it." Berg's was one of the last major settlements reached before the California Supreme Court upheld portions of a new law that put a cap on court awards for pain and suffering and on contingency fees. That rule applied to Insurance Salesman Harry Jordan when he sued because surgeons mistakenly removed his healthy left kidney instead of his cancerous right one. Unable to work, he requires eight hours of dialysis three times a week. A jury awarded Jordan $5.2 million, but the cap law compelled the trial...
After attracting nationwide attention, voters defeated a controversial referendum which would have allowed the alleged victims of pornography to sue the makers and distributors of obscene material. While a ban on nerve gas testing in the city was upheld, Cambridge residents were split on whether Harvard should be permitted to continue its preferential house sales to faculty members...
...Brieant's decision were upheld, Tribe said, it would set a dangerous precedent that might upset the constitutional balance between the federal and state judicial systems. Tribe said such a ruling would encourage corporations to look nationwide for judges who would be willing to overturn unfavorable decisions...
...second-class status among the forms of discourse covered by the First Amendment's freedom-of-speech guarantees. The Supreme Court, notes Columbia Law Professor Vincent Blasi, "has clearly said that commercial advertising is not protected to the same degree as political debate or artistic expression." Indeed, the court upheld without comment the 1971 ban on broadcast cigarette ads. Since then, however, the Justices have been sheltering commercial speech more aggressively. In 1980 the court struck down a New York rule that sought to conserve energy by banning utility ads promoting electricity use. Before the Government may regulate truthful advertisements...
...court had earlier rejected the main evidence against Ver, which consisted principally of contradictory statements about intelligence gathering that the general had made when he voluntarily appeared before the civilian board. Ver's testimony before that panel was ruled inadmissible by the court, a decision that was subsequently upheld by the Supreme Court, on the grounds that he had not been advised of his right not to testify...