Sentence examples for before being overturned from inspiring English sources

Four did so in the two-year period the legislation was in effect before being overturned by the federal government.

We trust our peers to respond on the basis of scientific evidence, and yet huge suits against Bendectin were won without any scientific proof before being overturned on appeal.

Mr. Hamilton said that he had a "gay sister and a gay cousin in Hollywood" and that his opposition to this was different from when he championed a City Council resolution supporting Proposition 8, which in 2008 banned gay marriage before ultimately being overturned by the Supreme Court.

Fair to say that the city of New York enjoyed a little spot of schadenfreude as it discovered this image of Chris Christie celebrating the catch, before it was overturned.

The "Alfano Law" granted immunity from prosecution to the four highest political offices in Italy - the president, the speakers of the houses of parliament and the prime minister - before it was overturned in 2009.

Passed in the spring of 2012, it lasted a little more than two years before it was overturned as unconstitutional.

How would she comprehend that we were born in a country where interracial marriage had been outlawed by the Supreme Court for 84 years before it was overturned in Loving v. Virginia in 1967?

In a blistering 65-page indictment, I and my former boss, Broadcom co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III, were accused of multiple counts of securities fraud, filing false reports with the SEC, accounting fraud, lying to the company's auditors and, the prosecutors' former favorite (before it was overturned by the Supreme Court), honest services mail and wire fraud.

Knox spent four years in prison before her conviction was overturned, in 2011.

So did the Milwaukee Brewers' Ryan Braun, in October 2011, before his suspension was overturned last spring.

initially deemed ineligible to compete against able-bodied athletes before that ruling was overturned in 2008.