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Their convictions were finally overturned in 1991.

Like Galton, Grant had similar success in influencing American public policy, both through the imposition of racist restrictions on immigration at the federal level and through the enforcement of anti-miscegenation laws in thirty states, until such prohibitions were finally overturned by the United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia (388 U.S. 1 [1967]).

The 2007 judgment was finally overturned after years of appeals.

It became possible only when a benighted policy that prohibited entry visas for people suffering from AIDS or infected with H.I.V. was finally overturned in 2009.

The custom characteristics of the Patriots and the Colts can be adjusted to the point at which Zeus's recommendation is finally overturned.

In any case, the law was finally overturned in 1976, when a 26-year old pinball wizard named Roger Sharpe predicted — and made — a predetermined shot in a courtroom, thus proving that pinball was not, in fact, a game of chance.

He was convicted for contempt of court, a conviction that was finally overturned by Congress in 1962.

The player suspensions were eventually overturned.

And then there are the poignant final pages, when she is an older woman, her work done (though the federal obscenity laws that effectively outlawed contraception were not finally overturned until 1970).

The case was eventually overturned on appeal.

(The conviction was eventually overturned on appeal).