The phrase "argument overturned" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a previously held belief or conclusion has been disproven or invalidated by new evidence or reasoning.
Example: "The new evidence presented in court led to the argument overturned, changing the outcome of the trial."
Alternatives: "argument refuted" or "argument disproven".
These arguments overturned the conventional view, inherited from Immanuel Kant (1720 1804), that identified all a priori propositions as necessary and all a posteriori propositions as contingent.
But the higher court supported that argument, and overturned the entire conviction.
Its lawyers are convinced that the "double jeopardy" argument that overturned the IOC's "Osaka rule", which banned any athlete with a suspension of more than six months from the Olympics that followed, is directly analogous to the BOA life ban bylaw.
Judge Rakoff rejected their argument to overturn the guilty verdicts.
This argument helped overturn the death penalty for a pro bono client of Mr. Verrilli's, Kevin Wiggins.
Samuel Issacharoff, an election specialist at Columbia Law School, said the court seemed to have presented a convincing argument to overturn the narrow interpretations of the law by Ms. Harris.
And to go that length, one would assume that the judiciary in every state, under that argument, could overturn, rewrite, revise, and change the election law in presidential elections, notwithstanding Article II, at will.
Along the way, she articulated the intellectual foundations of two of the most important social-justice movements of the twentieth century: first, when she made her argument for overturning Plessy, and, later, when she co-wrote a law-review article subsequently used by a rising star at the A.C.L.U.
Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye asked a defense lawyer what the legal consequences would be if the court accepted one of the many narrow defense arguments and overturned the verdict of death for Darrel K. Harris, a Brooklyn man convicted of multiple killings.
An argument might overturn our intuitive verdict of confirmability by positive instances for generalizations containing these terms but the burden is on the denier.
