Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spokesmen for the Coop said the Society is confident that the court will uphold its opposition. In the event of an unfavorable ruling, they said, contigency plans had been developed to avoid any major design changes in the annex, which is already under construction...
...courts uphold Cambridge's position, the City would receive federal urban renewal funds to clear the 42 acres in Kendall Square--29 for NASA and 13 for an adjoining private development...
With Collins in prison awaiting action by another grand jury, the state has continued fighting to uphold his original conviction. Last week the state attorney general lost his last round when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the appellate court decision. In effect, the Supreme Court thus stood by Justice Stanley Reed's 1950 dictum: "An accused is entitled to have charges against him considered by a jury in the selection of which there has been neither inclusion nor exclusion because of race...
...Social Security. It collapsed in conference when three Democratic Senators - Louisiana's Russell Long, Florida's George Smathers and Tennessee's Albert Gore - refused to approve the bill unless medicare was included. Gore even threatened a filibuster. The three held out because each wanted to uphold the Senate position, thus gain more points in their rival ambitions to succeed Hubert Humphrey as Democratic whip. Also lost in the shuffle, to Johnson's probable delight: a Senate-passed "sense of Congress" resolution that Supreme Court-ordered redistricting of state legislatures should be delayed - a subject that...
...hell, I will help them. It's my job." Black studied the Constitution and found definite rules -"absolutes," he called them-that forbade any such attitude. He particularly balked at Frankfurter's thesis that the Court must balance personal freedoms against Government needs and uphold any "reasonable" Government action. To Black, the "balancing test" was a turning away from the Constitution: it freed judges to pursue their own notions of reasonableness and veered "close to the English doctrine of legislative omnipotence." Where were the limits...