Word: upheld
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...long ruled that a state may infringe upon individual rights to serve a "compelling interest," but to require use of Norplant might constitute discrimination. Intent is irrelevant. If there is an adverse "prima facie" statistical effect on minorities the policy in question could be considered discriminatory, as has been upheld in court with some hiring policies...
Because of that history, affirmative action, the evaluation by different standards of those individuals who have suffered from America's racial and ethnic tensions, becomes neither insulting nor illegal. In 1978, the Supreme Court, ruling on University of California Regents v. Bakke, upheld measures that give an admissions tip to minorities. In an ideal world, affirmative action should give a poor Black kid and a middle-class white kid the same chance at success, however measured...
...refusal to reconsider the repeal of the Guam law, the majority opinion cited the argument of "undue burden" to attack the legality of preventing women from having abortions. The justices lifted this argument from last summer's Casey v. Planned Parenthood ruling that fundamentally upheld 1973's landmark Roe v. Wade decision...
Certainly it is a victory for pro-choicers. It tells the nation that the court's June resolution which upheld Roe v. Wade and forbade state imposition of "undue burdens" on a woman's right to abortion is not open to dispute--at least...
...addition, the Supreme Court may soon be faced with a Mississippi abortion case where a 24-hour waiting period and counseling would in fact be considered impositions for its residents. While such components of legislation upheld in Pennsylvania, Mississippi could be different. After all, the Southern state boasts only three abortion clinics...