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He said, "I believe that this tactic is lifesaving," and, referring to Terry v. Ohio, he added, "It is also lawful and constitutional as upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1968".

As written and as upheld by the Supreme Court, Mr. Somvichian said, the zero-tolerance law could punish a public housing tenant for something a relative does far from the tenant's residence.

It would have sufficed for the US and its allies to withdraw active participation and inform their associates in the Indonesian military command that the atrocities must be terminated and the territory granted the right of self-determination, as upheld by the United Nations and the international court of justice.

Hence, the traditional combination of marriage, sex, and family, as upheld by long-standing Chinese cultural expectations, has become less influential, particularly in regard to serving as a foundation of dating and partner selection.

While the former attempts to reinterpret the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause--which has, for 130 years, guaranteed the right to citizenship at birth--the latter threatens to violate its Equal Protection Clause--which, as upheld by the Supreme Court in Plyler v. Doe, grants all children the right to a public education.

The silence of the internet was nearly as deafening as the silence upheld by the Columbus Catholic Diocese over the firing of a teacher who dutifully served one of its schools for 19 years.

The detainees should be afforded due process under relevant provisions of the Geneva Convention (as recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court).

The freedom that was enjoyed – in both senses of the word – by the dancers at the Pulse nightclub is upheld by tolerance as well as by firm and unbiased enforcement of the laws.

In February his election as president was upheld by a tribunal, which freed him to assert his independence from former president Olusegun Obasanjo.

Justice Kennedy filed a concurring opinion to say that not only Proposition 198 but also federal campaign law, as interpreted and upheld by the court, were undermining political parties' First Amendment rights by limiting the parties' ability to make contributions directly to their candidates and inducing the parties to turn to soft money and issue advocacy.

But the ruling from the ECJ – particularly if, as is likely, it is upheld by British court of appeal judges – will mean that the new law will now face a succession of legal challenges from privacy campaigners fortified by the ruling in their back pockets.