Word: upheld
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...even if charged, Harding will still have a strong case to compete in the Games. (She has legal precedent on her side. U.S. sprinter Butch Reynolds was barred from competing in the last Olympics after failing a 1990 drug test that he claimed was flawed; when a court upheld his claim, Reynolds won a $27.3 million judgment...
After a season of adversity, from Emmitt Smith's early-season holdout to holding his separated shoulder, the team has upheld Texas pride in fashion...
Diller did come after him, topping and then topping again the friendly offers from MTV-owner Viacom that Paramount had accepted. And in a ruling that Davis had clearly dreaded, the Delaware Supreme Court last week upheld a lower-court decision that ordered Paramount's board to give serious consideration to Diller's bid of $10.1 billion, or about $85 a share at recent market prices, along with Viacom's offer of $9.5 billion, or about $79.35 a share. The ruling struck down the defenses that Paramount and Viacom had erected against competing bidders and, in effect, placed Paramount...
...Delaware Supreme Court upheld a lower courts ruling that invalidated antitakeover measures deployed by Paramount Communications against QVC Network. QVC's rival, Viacom, must now decide whether to increase its $9.4 billion bid to match QVCs $10.1 billion offer...
Gays have always been among those least likely to be served by the courts. In the case of Bowers v. Hardwick in 1986, a 5-to-4 Supreme Court majority upheld a Georgia statute under which two men were charged with sodomy for practicing consensual sex in the home of one of them. Consistent with what one lower-court judge called this "criminalization" of homosexual acts, the Justices denied gays any but the lowest standing as a potentially disadvantaged group under the 14th Amendment. Since then, activists have achieved limited success with maverick lower courts by citing similar protections...