Sentence examples for uphold a right from inspiring English sources
Mr. Banks, 59, was in his 20s when he began waging a legal fight to force the city to uphold a "right to shelter" under the State Constitution, obligating New York to provide temporary housing to anyone who entered an intake center and asked for it.
In India, in the case, Paschim Banag Khet Samity v State of West Bengal (1996) 4 SCC 37 the right to life has been used to uphold a right to emergency medical treatment.
Conversely, Scalia believes that, because abortion was outlawed in the United States for more than a century, one cannot claim that American tradition upholds a right to it.
She recited portions of the 1992 ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which upheld a right to an abortion but allowed some restrictions so long as they do not place an "undue burden" on the woman's rights.
In fact, the Supreme Court made it quite clear in its 2008 decision upholding a right to own a weapon that government has an absolute ability to impose limits on that right, just as the right to free expression doesn't permit the promulgation of child pornography.
Separately, new documents released by the National Archives from Roberts's tenure as a senior adviser to the attorney general during the Reagan administration make clear that he was deeply skeptical of the court's recognition of a citizen's fundamental "right to privacy" -- the legal concept that underpinned its historic 1973 decision upholding a right to abortion.
They rest firmly on principled considerations of august national and international organisations such as the United Nations that see OA as upholding a right of everyone to access publicly-funded information.
Today's ruling pointedly did not uphold a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry.
Certainly, it should be upheld as a right in Spain; in the Spanish Constitution of 1978, Article 16(3) states that "No religion shall have a state character.
So far, the Katz decision is unique in upholding a private right of action against a state based on an implied surrender of state sovereign immunity in the Constitution, but its reasoning is applicable to contexts other than bankruptcy.
"There is no obvious stopping point," if the court upholds a constitutional right to assisted suicide, Solicitor General Walter Dellinger told the justices.
