Sentence examples for upheld the clause from inspiring English sources

A 1987 D.C. Circuit Court case (Public Citizen v. Young) upheld the clause for Orange nr 17, which has a lifetime cancer risk of 1 in 19 billion people; the judge stated that Congress intended an "extraordinarily rigid" position and that food manufacturers would find noncarcinogenic alternatives, and in fact, they did.

Judges have consistently upheld the clauses, The Times found, regardless of whether the people signing them understood what they were forfeiting.

Judges have also cited one of the most fundamental principles of contract law to uphold the clauses: A contract, once signed, is binding.

This year, in a 5-to-4 vote, in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, the conservatives upheld the arbitration clause in a customer contract requiring the signer to waive the right to take part in a class-action suit.

That brought it back to the Supreme Court, which in June 1972 upheld the reserve clause again, by a vote of 5 to 3. Justice Harry Blackmun wrote for the majority; his decision, which suggested Congress fix the problem, contained an embarrassing ode to baseball, complete with a laundry list of its greatest stars.

In April 1902, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania overruled an earlier decision by the Court of Common Pleas and upheld the reserve clause in contracts between players and NL clubs.

In 1964, the commerce clause formed part of the basis for the Civil Rights Act, and the Court upheld the argument that the clause grants Congress the power to prohibit racial discrimination in hotels and restaurants.

22, does not violate the Establishment Clause, but satisfies all elements of the "three-part" test laid down in Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602, that must be met for such a statute to be upheld under the Clause.

By upholding the arbitration clause in AT&T's customer agreement requiring the signer to waive the right to take part in a class action, the court provided other corporations with a model of how they can avoid class actions.

It issued a devastating blow to consumer rights by upholding the arbitration clause in AT&T's customer agreement, which required the signer to waive the right to take part in a class action.

Although most other state courts have upheld the validity of these clauses, they have one fatal weakness: Under the prevailing template for these clauses, the board of the defendant can waive them and permit a suit to be settled elsewhere.