Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major victory for the City of Cambridge, the Massachusetts Supreme Court yesterday upheld the city's ban on the testing, storage, transportation or disposal of serve gases at the Arthur D. Little Inc (ADL) laboratories...
...high court's "parochiaid" rulings have walked, or wobbled along, a fine line, with public assistance to religious schools sometimes rejected, sometimes approved. In certain circumstances, as Burger noted, a state may lend textbooks to parochial students, and it may pay their bus fare. In 1983 the court upheld a Minnesota law permitting parents to deduct private school tuition from their state income taxes. The court's increasing tolerance toward state-church collaboration in general seemed even clearer when the Minnesota ruling was followed by two decisions allowing a publicly paid legislative chaplain in Nebraska and a publicly sponsored creche...
...controversial opinion the court ruled 5 to 4 that it was an unfair labor practice for a union to fine members who resign during a strike contrary ; to union rules. The ruling upheld an interpretation of the labor laws by the National Labor Relations Board, which is now dominated by Reagan appointees...
...those principles are especially real because so often they were absent or violated in their native lands. It was no accident in the '60s and '70s, when alienation was in flower, that it often seemed to be "native" Americans who felt alienated, while aliens or the children of aliens upheld the native values. The immigrant's double vision results in a special, somewhat skewed perspective on America that can mislead but that can also find revelation in the things that to native Americans are obvious. Psychiatrist Robert Coles speaks of those "who straddle worlds and make of that very experience...
...President that were brutally critical of a candidate for U.S. Attorney in North Carolina, the court held unanimously that the Constitution's guarantee of the right to "petition the Government" does not block a libel suit when such petitions are maliciously defamatory. Finally, a 6 to 2 majority upheld most of Washington State's tough 1982 antipornography law, ruling that it could ban distribution of "lascivious" material. But the state went too far when it included material that merely "incites . . . lust," wrote Justice Byron White, because lust implies only "normal, healthy sexual desires." Last week's spate of decisions left...