That tradition was upheld when efforts to force cable companies to sell their channels individually (instead of in fixed tiers) died in Congress in 2004.
Since 2004 UNICEF has supported municipalities across Serbia to develop Local Plans of Action for children (LPA) to uphold municipal efforts in making cities across the country child friendly.
John Myrdal, the Honolulu lawyer who represented the coalition, said its members joined the suit because "they were concerned that if it was upheld, states' tourism efforts could get bogged down".
UN Women's vision is a world in which societies are free of gender-based discrimination, where women and men have equal opportunities, where women and girls are empowered to lead the change that they want to see, and where women's rights are upheld in all efforts to further development, human rights, peace and security.
This summer, Jerry Brown, the state's attorney general, plans to release a more consistent set of regulations on medical marijuana, but it is not clear that California's judges will uphold his effort.
A Mercer County judge upheld Gov. James E. McGreevey's effort to balance the state's spending plan by borrowing $2 billion against future revenues from auto fees and the cigarette tax.
Last term, he was part of the five-justice majority that upheld Arizona's effort to crack down on businesses that hire illegal immigrants, suggesting that he might also uphold that state's practice of stopping people to ask for their papers if it reaches the court.
So let's spare the celebrations even if they make the Arkansas bill mirror the federal Religious Restoration Freedom Act -- which is now itself something terrible, since it has been used to take away women's rights and was upheld in that effort in the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision.
[C3.] Judge Rejects Challenge in Tax Case A federal judge effectively upheld the Internal Revenue Service's efforts to obtain the names of two clients of KPMG who bought a tax shelter that the agency has said is abusive.
But advocates of abortion rights said the decision, if upheld, could seriously curtail efforts by federal prosecutors to impose criminal and civil penalties on protesters who seek to intimidate users of abortion clinics.
