The phrase "a judgment is affirmed" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal contexts to indicate that a higher court has agreed with and upheld the decision made by a lower court.
Example: "After reviewing the case, the appellate court announced that a judgment is affirmed, confirming the lower court's ruling."
Alternatives: "the ruling is upheld" or "the decision is confirmed."
Ordinarily, a tie vote at the Supreme Court means that the lower court judgment is affirmed, without an opinion and without setting a precedent.
God is not going to ask for your university degree!" Then, last week, the Justices delivered a split decision, in U.S. v. Texas, and with nine words—"The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court"—I stood corrected.
The decision was just nine words long: "The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided court".
As is customary with tie votes, the Court's opinion was just nine words: "The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court".
When it came, the court's much-anticipated view on the immigration case was so succinct it was presented as single line of text: "The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court".
The Supreme Court's decision simply reads, "The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court".
Whenever the "judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court," that leaves the lower court ruling as the controlling final decision.
If the judgment is affirmed, the damages payment would make only a modest dent in Microsoft's cash hoard, which totaled almost $29 billion at the end of last year.
"Since a majority of the qualified justices are of the opinion that the case cannot be heard and determined at the next term of the court, the judgment is affirmed," the order said.
At the time, their firm had won a judgment of more than $5 billion for the plaintiffs in the Exxon Valdez oil spill litigation, and its partners stood to get rich if the judgment were affirmed.
The government appealed, and the relatives cross-appealed to have their damage awards increased, but the earlier 1964 judgment was affirmed on September 30 , 1965
