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This is evident in areas from abortion law (where the Court upheld for the first time a total ban on a specific medical procedure) to antitrust (where the majority overturned a ninety-six-year-old line of cases).

In Gonzales v. Carhart, the Supreme Court upheld, for the first time, a federal law banning women from obtaining a certain kind of abortion procedure, even if that procedure is necessary to preserve the woman's health.

It is virtually insignificant compared to that of the eight-year-old girl whose marriage to a 47-year-old man was upheld for the second time last week by a Saudi court.

It needs a complete overhaul, a view supported only 10 days after the report's publication when the investigatory powers tribunal upheld a complaint for the first time in its existence, accepting the argument of the human rights organisation Amnesty International that GCHQ had been intercepting and monitoring its communications without explicit safeguards.

On June 28 , 2012 Verrilli spoke directly with Obama after the high court upheld his signature health law for the first time, as seen in the photo above.

The long-running case produced a landmark decision of the civil rights era, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, a 1971 decision in which the Supreme Court for the first time upheld busing as a remedy for school segregation.

Efforts to erase women's health considerations from women's health policy achieved a considerable victory in April 2007, when the Supreme Court for the first time upheld a federal law banning an abortion procedure that contained no exception for its use when necessary to protect a woman's health.

While the article was shocking, it allowed the PCC for the first time to uphold a complaint under a clause of the Editors' Code of Practice which had been introduced in 2006: "When reporting suicide, care should be taken to avoid excessive detail about the method used".

Most notoriously, the Court, for the first time in its history, upheld a categorical ban on an abortion procedure.

His conviction for fraud may have been upheld by the supreme court, delivering a definitive conviction for the first time in his long career.

For the first time, a judge has upheld a legal victory by an American company that claimed the government of Mexico violated investor-protection rules in the North American Free Trade Agreement.