Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women's rights. For the last 20 years, abortion rights groups have had to defend the famous decision against constant attacks. In fact, McCorvey's recent conservative turn mirrors some of the Court's chipping away at its original decision, including restricting second trimester abortion rights which it had upheld through Roe v. Wade in more recent cases...
...decision still allows race to be taken into account in the creation of voting districts. In a separate one-paragraph order, the court even upheld California's 1992 redistricting plan, which had created nine black and Hispanic majority districts. But as they did with affirmative action, the majority ruled that government could take race into account only through "narrowly tailored" remedies...
...vote, the court also decided that the University of Virginia violated free-speech guarantees when it refused to subsidize a student-run Christian magazine while subsidizing other student groups. And in a Fourth Amendment case, the court upheld by 6 to 3 a local school plan in Oregon that requires all student athletes to submit to random drug testing...
...right to keep out marchers they do not want to include--in this case a group of gay activists. "One important manifestation of the principle of free speech," wrote Justice David Souter, "is that one who chooses to speak may also decide what not to say." The court also upheld a Florida rule that bars lawyers from soliciting accident victims through the mails for 30 days after a tragedy...
...three judges upheld Loupan's right to criticize Harvard's French section, ruling, "If such a characterization is incontestably severe, it does not constitute, in itself, and attack on the honor or the consideration of the professors--and singularly of Ms. Jardine--as it is exclusively criticized as proceeding from debatable literary choices...