Word: upheld
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...unshakable." But if Barco's campaign is lauded by the politicians in Washington, it has more than its share of deserters among the politicians in Colombia. Aware that the specter of an American jail cell remains the drug bosses' darkest nightmare, the Colombian Supreme Court last October upheld Barco's use of executive powers to extradite suspects wanted in the U.S. But last week the Colombian House of Representatives voted to put the question of extradition on a nationwide referendum early next year. In so doing, the legislators effectively washed their hands of the issue and admitted to their constituents...
...this "all or nothing" symbolic victory, randomization would sacrifice much good in the community, without even guaranteeing that diversity's goals would be upheld. For nowhere in an incompletely diverse American can one find the road to equality perfectly paved over. It seems artificial, extreme, and self-defeating to attempt to do so so forcibly here, no matter how much we would like...
...dumping, a jury in a Florida state court convicted the railroad on four felony counts of commercial littering. When sentencing takes place, Amtrak could be fined $20,000 for its offal offense. The railroad, which planned to appeal, said it would halt service in Florida if the decision is upheld. Amtrak defended its foul trail as merely an "aesthetic" problem...
BOSTON--In what was believed to be the first case of its kind, a U.S. appeals court upheld a ruling that Boston University must pay $215,000 in damages and grant tenure to a female professor who sued the university for sex discrimination...
...Both concern state laws requiring that one or both parents be notified before a teenager can get an abortion. By calling for Roe to be reversed, the Justice Department has gone beyond the position taken by the states involved, Ohio and Minnesota. They argue that their laws could be upheld within the interpretation of Roe that the court adopted in July, when it gave states greater power to restrict abortion...