Word: upheld
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...Judge Teel weighed the testimony of friends and family, then granted permission to remove the life-sustaining apparatus. Four months later, however, the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the ruling, arguing that "vague and unreliable" recollections were insufficient proof of Nancy's intent. Last June the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a state's right to demand clear and convincing evidence in the matter, then returned the Cruzan case to the Missouri courts...
...opinion piece "Business Should Come First" in the December 12 issue of The Crimson incorrectly identified the court decision which upheld the right of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, Ill. The 1978 decision was handed down by a Federal District Court, not the Supreme Court of the U.S., and the case was designated Collin v. Smith...
...will be a dry punch next year," he said. "We all agreed that the Massachusetts alcohol policy has to be upheld...
...revealed were in its possession. When Hoeveler issued an injunction forbidding broadcast of the recordings, CNN, which had previously disseminated parts of several tapes, still went ahead to air one purporting to ^ contain Noriega's talks with attorneys. After the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta upheld Hoeveler's prohibition, the network appealed to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. He referred the matter to the full nine-member bench, which at week's end was considering an emergency CNN petition to rescind...
...court is expected to hand down a ruling on the injunction this week. It has never upheld the issuance of a prior restraint on the publication or broadcast of news, considering it, in a 1976 decision, to be the "most serious and least tolerable infringement on First Amendment rights...