Word: upholds
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Protesters who led the march carried a poster that said: "Uphold the righteous leaders of the party...
Even one of the most sacrosanct areas of jurisprudence, contract law, is under attack. Feminists charge that the law tends to uphold agreements concerning the things men produce but ignores the contributions women make. Says Professor Mary Becker of the University of Chicago Law School: "Courts have traditionally refused to enforce bargains between spouses in which one partner agrees to pay the other for women's work -- child rearing, caretaking and other domestic responsibilities...
Democrats were somber in the face of difficult political decisions the report will force on whether to uphold their party's most visible official, who stands third in line of succession to the White House...
According to Jan Carroll, a legislativedirector of the National Right to Life Committee,the Court could uphold the provisions of theMissouri statute without overturning Roe."But we do think it's a likely place for the Courtto begin the erosion of Roe v. Wade," sheadds...
Some legal scholars worried about the court's direction in future cases. "Will it be limited to safety-sensitive positions or broadened to include any public employee who is a role model?" asked University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar. Other experts doubted that the court would uphold random drug tests for a broad spectrum of Government employees. "The pattern of votes on the court suggests that as you get closer to mainstream workers, the number of dissenters picks up," observed Columbia University Law Professor Gerard Lynch...