The phrase "after upholding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a situation where a decision, law, or principle has been maintained or supported prior to another action or event.
Example: "The court ruled in favor of the plaintiff after upholding the previous decision."
Alternatives: "following the confirmation" or "subsequent to maintaining".
The court delivered the ultimatum after upholding its decision last November to award two UK prisoners €5,000 £4,3500) in costs and expenses for their loss of voting rights, which was ruled a breach of their human rights.
The local government ombudsman has reprimanded a local authority over its provision for children with special educational needs after upholding 11 complaints against the council over the last two years.
He said his father, an insurance broker who remained in business while he was mayor, found that he had no political or business future in Arkansas after upholding the court-ordered integration of Central High School in 1957.
A decade after upholding the use of roadblocks to catch drunken drivers, the Supreme Court today agreed to decide whether adding a drug-sniffing dog to the checkpoint renders the practice unconstitutional.
The Red Sox announcers agreed that it was foul; one of them saw no reason to review it but figured that the umpires might do the home team a favor after upholding Omir Santos's home run the night before.
After upholding the trial court's finding that respondent was detained without probable causea determination that is not challenged in this Court 8 the Court of Appeals turned to consideration of what evidentiary consequences ought to flow from that Fourth Amendment violation.
Investors flocked to Qualcomm after Japan and Europe upheld three of the company's patents.
In December, the Internet radio host Harold Turner was sentenced to 33 months in prison for threatening three appeals court judges after they upheld a Chicago ban on handguns.
After courts upheld the state's right to use eminent domain on behalf of Forest City, Mr. Goldstein, who bought his apartment for $590,000 in 2003, was offered $510,000.
Navy, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania were declared co-winners of the prestigious Challenge Cup today after officials upheld a protest by the Quakers at the 1992 Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta.
Three days after Mrs. Whitman upheld a Clinton rule protecting wetlands, his lawyers opened settlement talks with developers seeking to weaken the rule.
