Word: upheld
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...addition, the CPJ intends to take action to help ensure the journalists receive a fair trial if the law is upheld...
...throughout her career, Marshall has shown that she has a remarkable ability to do what judges are supposed to do--uphold the law. Her record shows an unrivaled depth and breadth of experience, legal and otherwise. In a July opinion, she upheld a law refusing health benefits to domestic partners while also pointing out that the law on the books may be outdated; she wrote, "A 'family' may no longer be constituted simply of a wage-earning father, his dependent wife and the couple's children...
...depends on whom you ask, says TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders. "The current Supreme Court is very conservative on the Fourth Amendment, and they?ve given government a lot of freedom to enact what many consider to be unreasonable intrusions." In the past, explains Sanders, "the court has generally upheld random drug tests when it has perceived an important impact on safety or law enforcement. The question now is: Does random drug testing of welfare recipients serve any important safety or law enforcement rationale?" Stay tuned: Sanders believes that this case may make its way to the Supreme Court...
...they see something, they make a move to head off that potential threat." All this paranoia seems unreasonable to most U.S. consumers, to whom comparison shopping - and the freebies that come with it, like frequent flier miles - are taken for granted. While the German businesses? aggressive stance has been upheld consistently by the country?s highest courts, some companies, like American Express, have taken their appeals to the European Commission. If the E.C. doesn't grant German consumers a little taste of a free market, watch for price-conscious Germans to find their economic freedom in the relatively unregulated world...
...Court refused to hear his appeal. Meanwhile, atheists who sued for membership were ruled out of order, as was a woman who wanted to be a scoutmaster. But last week the New Jersey supreme court brought an end to the win streak. In a unanimous decision, the seven justices upheld the membership of James Dale, 29, a gay assistant scoutmaster expelled...