Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision by the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) to uphold the licensing would remove the final obstacle in Harvard's 12-year struggle to bring the plant into full operation...
...same time, Fox said he would file a document with the Appeals Court seeking a "summary affirmance" that would uphold the trial court's judgment favorable to the Globe...
Since the Organization of American States, of which the U.S. is a member, provides for mutual defense, the U.S. "had a duty or a right to respond [to Nicaraguan secret wars] and uphold the OAS charter...
...have certain rules and standards to uphold," she says...
...court declined to allow new limits on what pornographers may say, it did not object to tougher limits on where they may say it. The court voted 7 to 2 to uphold a zoning ordinance passed by the small Seattle suburb of Renton (pop. 32,000) that prohibited the showing of explicit films in theaters within 1,000 ft. of a school, church or residence. The law was acceptable, said Justice William Rehnquist, because it served the legitimate governmental purpose of preserving the quality of urban life while allowing reasonable alternative locations to the theater operators...