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The state has defended the policy, and a federal appeals court has upheld it, as a sensible way to minimize interracial violence at the reception centers where inmates are housed while being screened for long-term placement.

Laffoon rushed back to the state to invalidate the call, but the Kentucky Court of Appeals upheld it as constitutional, and the primary law was passed.

Says he, "If this policy is presented properly to the user, then the court will uphold it as a contract, despite the fact that nobody reads it.

"It's clearly why the Legislature moved to pass it, and now they should uphold it as the promise that they made to the voters," she said.

The models are meant to be desirable -- beautiful, sophisticated, more elegant and cool than you could ever possibly be -- and the everyday woman is encouraged to imitate that body type, to uphold it as a beauty ideal.

The plaintiffs say that decision renders the mandate unconstitutional, since the Supreme Court had upheld it only as a tax.

If it is the latter, the game's masters must uphold it, not as a vindictive act against Mr Scudamore, but as an unequivocal statement of what the Premier League stands for.

The United States Supreme Court has not ruled on the constitutionality of electrocution since 1890, when it upheld its use as more humane than hanging.

Now, the refusal of the government's spokesman to say clearly whether Mr. Abe, an ardent nationalist who has criticized the apology in the past, would uphold it is seen as confirming some fears that the return of Mr. Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party could roil international relations in Asia in deeply unhelpful ways.

The law will not take effect until the Kansas Supreme Court or a federal court upholds it as constitutional.

Every few months some insider will publish an article that either rebukes the idea of the MFA program as a Ponzi scheme controlled by fascist eggheads, or upholds it as an Alamo for literary refugees.