Sentence examples similar to upholding procedures from inspiring English sources

In Baze, seven members of the Supreme Court (including Scalia and Thomas) voted to uphold procedures used in lethal injections in Kentucky against the claim that these processes could result in horrific pain, constituting cruel and unusual punishment.

In May, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld its procedures.

The justices last considered the topic of lethal injection in 2008, upholding the procedure, but the lethal injection drugs used at that time are no longer used nationwide.

His primary duty was to uphold disciplinary procedures for officials; he could investigate even those attached to the chancellery and the imperial palace.

Executions in Oklahoma were halted when the Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to the state's lethal injection protocols (the justices upheld the procedure), and they were further postponed after the episodes with the wrong execution drugs.

But the university said it upholds rigorous admissions procedures to ensure all students are given equal opportunities, regardless of disability.

The report's authors called on the South African government to ensure that all health system procedures uphold patient privacy, particularly for people living with HIV.

In addition to the hazards of reading any meaning into this Court's denials of certiorari, I would also note that each of the aforecited cases came to this Court after the Court of Appeals had upheld the identification procedures there employed.

Among those upholding California's procedure is ninth circuit judge Jay Bybee, who signed off on a controversial Bush administration "torture memo" that said acts only constitute torture if they produce the sort of severe pain associated with organ failure or death.

His lawyers have said lower courts are divided over how to interpret the Supreme Court's ruling in 2015 upholding Oklahoma's execution procedures.

The UK has detailed procedures that uphold the moral and legal conduct of the intelligence agencies and those responsible for them.