Sentences with phrase «decision upheld»

Decision upheld on appeal

James was also successful in having the appeal decision upheld on judicial review.

The Privacy Commissioner's decision upheld all of PIAC's concerns and issued 24 recommendations to Nexopia to improve the privacy of their teen social networking users.

The decision upheld the use of race as one of many factors, but ruled against setting aside positions that could only be filled by members of racial group («forecloses consideration to persons like respondent»).

There's a «strong case,» she says, «to have that decision upheld.»

The trial decision upheld the SK tribunal, which found against the commissioner.

The trial judge ruled against claimants, and the B.C.C.A. decision upheld the decision.

The decision upheld the «first sale doctrine,» a concept that says once a publisher sells a copy of a work to a member of the public, the buyer is free to do sell or dispose of the copy as they wish.

This landmark decision upheld a ruling of the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal that the employer did not unlawfully discriminate when a worker's employment was terminated for breach of a safety rule that prohibited a worker from being under the influence of alcohol or drugs at work.

The Hughes decision upheld FERC's authority to reject state subsidies for new generation.

The state declined to return control to the district, a decision upheld in a court ruling.

The Abood decision upheld this practice.

The decision upheld earlier rulings.

That decision upheld a state requirement that all schools in the state employ certified teachers.

The decision upheld the Second Circuit, but lacks precedential value.

I think the Supreme Court got it wrong again in 1896, when the Plessy v. Ferguson decision upheld segregated public facilities in the states.

Jehovah's Witnesses instigated court decisions in 1942 which involved cursing a police officer calling him a fascist and to get in your face at the door steps,... this same JW 1942 court decision upheld infamous Phelps hate church in 2011 — Danny Haszard, More on this group http://www.dannyhaszard.com

The SEC recently notched a major victory against inside traders with a court decision upholding the 2014 conviction of former SAC Capital Advisors portfolio manager Mathew Martoma.

The Recording Industry of America on Monday urged a federal appeals court to reconsider a recent decision upholding a $ 5.3 million judgment against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams for copying a Marvin Gaye song to create their 2013 smash «Blurred Lines.»

As a federal court stated in a 2011 decision upholding the foreign national prohibition statute and regulation — a decision affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court: «It is fundamental to the definition of our national political community that foreign citizens do not have a constitutional right to participate in, and thus may be excluded from, activities of democratic self - government.»

The Supreme Court's decision upholding a ban on partialbirth abortions, Gonzales v. Carhart, «is a significant step in the right direction — moving away from the infamous «abortion distortion» in Supreme Court jurisprudence and bringing their interpretation of abortion law more in line with other fields of law».

A striking example of the negative result of the absence of an open debate on the moral meaning of homosexuality is the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the rights of states to outlaw sodomy.

Olson also invoked «fundamental rights» and was queried by Justice Scalia as to just exactly when it became unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage: 1791 with the Bill of Rights, 1868 with the 14th Amendment, or some other date, perhaps after the Court declined in 1971 to review a Minnesota Supreme Court decision upholding opposite - sex marriage requirements?

The Supreme Court's 6 - 3 decision upholding the right of a Christian youth group to meet in public schools after class hours is a significant signal of the Court's....

The battle cry is this war was notoriously formulated by Justice Kennedy in the Casey decision upholding the abortion license in America: «At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.»

In his lower court decision upholding the health care law, conservative Judge Laurence Silberman (seen here getting the Congressional Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush) wrote

The decision upholds lower court rulings.

In a statement read to MPs Mr Straw, who was foreign secretary at the time the UK went to war, said: «Following the information tribunal's decision upholding the information commissioner's decision that a redacted version of the Cabinet minutes of March 13th and 17th 2003 should be disclosed, and having taken the view of Cabinet, I have today given a certificate under section 53 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to the information commissioner.

Constitution Party Vice-Chairman Darrell Castle discusses a recent Supreme Court of the United States decision upholding invasive search procedures.

The decision upholds a March ruling from a lower court, and is a blow to the Bloomberg administration's attempts to revitalize the city's education system by shutting down failing schools.

Most New Yorkers agree with the recent Supreme Court decision upholding President Obama's health care reform, but most think the new law, when fully implemented, will cause health care costs to rise.

Chet Susslin / National Journal The Supreme Court's decision upholding racial preferences in public - university admissions drew broad support on Thursday from AAAS and other scientific and academic groups that...

Americans» support for using public funds to pay for students to attend private schools apparently was growing even before the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision upholding the Cleveland voucher plan, findings from this year's Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on public attitudes about education suggest.

But observers in St. Paul believe two recent developments may create a favorable climate for the concept: the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the state's 25 - year - old system of income - tax deductions for expenses incurred by families with children in private and public schools, and the endorsement of a generalized voucher...

Despite having previously struck down vouchers, in March 2014 the Arizona Supreme Court declined to review an appeals - court decision upholding the state's ESA law.

For example, despite the Supreme Court's 2002 Zelman decision upholding school voucher programs involving religious schools, my own chapter in the book [«School Choice Litigation after Zelman»] shows how ongoing litigation in state courts continues to shape the development of programs providing school choice in both the private and public sectors.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court issued a decision upholding the state's tax - credit scholarship program on August 28, 2014.

Mead says it's unclear how the U.S. Supreme Court would side on states neglecting more stringent discrimination protections, given that the high court's 2002 decision upholding Ohio vouchers in Zelman v. Simmons - Harris stated that voucher recipients can not be defined by religion and that they have a «genuine choice» between religious and non-religious schools.

The decision upholds a program that allows individuals to give money to a state - run non-profit organization that then distributes private school scholarships to Arizona students.

After the 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of vouchers in Cleveland, the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm, and Maine families again asked a Maine court to overturn the 1981 law, but the exclusion of religious options was upheld.

The University of Texas at Austin rejected a lower court decision upholding how the University considers race in admissions on grounds that it didn't meet the «strict scrutiny» test for using race.

The Supreme Court, in its 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger decision upholding affirmative action, and in Justice Breyer's dissent (joined by three other Justices) to its 2007 Parents Involved in Community Schools decision, cited the Civil Rights Project's research.

The accounts — and the court decisions upholding them — have positive implications for students» K - 12 and college careers.

Legal The Malaysian cartoonist Zunar has appealed a court decision upholding his 2010 arrest and detention, claiming police acted in bad faith when they arrested him under the Sedition Act because of his book Cartoon - O - Phobia, which had not yet been released at the time of his arrest.

Consumers» rights to accurate credit reports get boost — Consumer advocates buoyed by a Congressional proposal to make the credit reporting system fairer and a Supreme Court decision upholding right to accurate information reporting... (See Credit reports)

Click here for more on the Court's decision upholding a Texas law banning horse slaughter for human consumption and here for information about the fight in the legislature and the courts in Illinois to shut down the horse slaughter plant in DeKalb.   Â

A 6 - 2 majority of justices issued a decision upholding federal agency rules to control coal - fired power plant emissions from 28 states.

That is a central issue in a recent lawsuit by Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF), the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a host of lawmakers and several companies, who are petitioning the Supreme Court to review an appellate court decision upholding the EPA's global warming regulations.

Megan C. Deluhery was quoted in a news article in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly on a federal appeals court decision upholding jury instructions in an employment discrimination case.

The appellate court distinguished the facts in Mundy from its decision upholding a manifest injustice in Congdon v. Condon, 40 Va..