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Electoral officials said party leaders did not provide required registration documents, and its exclusion was upheld for the November voting.

The fallow-land portion of the sabbatical law, meanwhile, was upheld for centuries, but it, too, finally gained a loophole, called heter mechira.

Has it escaped your notice that Knox was convicted of defamation, a criminal charge, in Italy — a conviction that was upheld — for falsely accusing an innocent man of murdering Meredith Kercher?

How to regulate these committees is the latest chapter in the new McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, which was passed in 2002 and was upheld, for the most part, by the Supreme Court last year.

But in December that year the Employment Appeal Tribunal reversed the ruling, and it was upheld for a second time by the Court of Appeal in 2009.

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.

972, 83 L.Ed. 1385, the one case in which standing has been upheld for legislators claiming an institutional injury.

Consider what would have happened if the gold clause had been upheld, for both government and private debts.

The plan also sets out the rules to be upheld for the artificial opening of the sandbar that separates the lagoon from the ocean.

Most notably, the appearance -- to be upheld for Madison friends and family -- that her moribund love for Mike is flourishing.

That certification cannot be upheld, for it rests on a conception of Rule 23(b)(3)'s predominance requirement irreconcilable with the rule's design.