Word: upheld
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...Supreme Court snubbed a New York professor who was removed from his post at City College after igniting a firestorm of criticism over allegations that some of his public pronouncements were anti-Semitic. A federal appeals court upheld a judge?s ruling which restored Leonard Jeffries as black studies department chairman because his removal -- for a 1991 speech charging that Jews had a history of oppressing blacks -- violated his First Amendment rights. But the Justices today ordered the New York federal court to restudy its ruling in light of a separate May Supreme Court decision, which says a public employee...
...telephone interview yesterday, Boston Herald editor Jack Sullivan upheld the reporter's challenge to the organizers. He said the Herald is accustomed to being admitted to local events on the sole basis of its press credentials...
...courts treated children who were kept home as truants; but home schooling is now legal in every state. Thirty-four states have passed specific statutes and regulations, and 29 require standardized testing for home-schooled students to ensure that they are passing muster. Last June the Texas Supreme Court upheld a ruling that exempted home-schooled children from the state's compulsory-attendance laws. As long as parents use a curriculum that includes written materials and meets "basic education goals," the court ruled, the state has no authority over the matter...
Unfortunately, the judge refused to mandate any changes in the Texas admissions policy, claiming that the law school had acted in "good faith." Officials at the law school jubilantly announced that their "goals and policies were upheld and endorsed...
...Rent control] has been challenged several times in court, and has continually been upheld," said Susan Weinstein, the assistant counsel to the Cambridge Rent Control Board...