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Over the following years, 25 convictions were overturned as victims recanted and said they had been coerced into saying they were abused.

The laws on which his dismissal was based were overturned as unconstitutional in the 1960's, and in 1982 he won a major settlement from the city.

In some cases, Mr. Goldsmith's decisions proved problematic enough that they were overturned, as when he removed financing from the city's latest budget for new waste management stations.

More than 100 convictions were overturned as a result.

We watched as a Sikh man was shot in Washington; as gravestones were overturned; as Latinos in California and New York were assaulted; as transgender women of color were murdered; as Jews were under siege in their homes, places of worship and community centers.

The union would likely be far less likely to decertify if the injunction is overturned, as now appears likely.

A decade later, a Wisconsin law preventing people from marrying if they were behind on their child-support payments was overturned as too burdensome to the "basic civil rights of man".

If Roe v. Wade were overturned and, as Brooks so glibly put it, 21 states outlaw abortion at any stage, access problems like the scenarios described in the study would only get worse.

That judgment was overturned but as late as Saturday hard-hatted labourers and mechanical diggers were at work outside the stadium, parts of which still resemble a construction site.

All the positive work done regarding attitudes towards race, sex, gender, religion, orientation, and identity are at risk of being overturned but as long as people have their voices nothing will happen silently.

Hunter and the other five men, now known as the Birmingham Six, spent 17 years in jail before their convictions were overturned having been recognised as one of the gravest miscarriages of British justice in the 20th century.