Word: overturned
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When the council convened the next week to consider overturning the ROTC resolution, they were met by hundreds of students, eager to have their say in the controversial debate. The council voted to overturn the call for ROTC's return on the basis of unconstitutionality, but when Lee closed debate on another ROTC resolution before allowing anyone to speak, chaos ensued: the crowd began chanting and approaching the podium and a frazzled Lee adjourned the meeting...
When California residents voted to brake the state's runaway car-insurance rates last November, alarmed insurers sped into court to overturn the referendum. But last week the California Supreme Court upheld most of the measure, thus increasing the prospect that a revolt against high auto premiums could soon spread to other states. In a unanimous decision, the seven justices affirmed the major provisions of Proposition 103, which slashes car premiums and other types of property and casualty rates 20% below the level of November 1987. Good drivers will get another...
...Justices must decide how widely to rule: to strike down the Missouri law or to support it as compatible with Roe; they could also restrict or, less likely, overturn Roe. Many observers expect a fragmented court until further appointments produce a firm majority on one side or the other. As with some affirmative-action cases, even Justices who agree in an abortion ruling might disagree about the legal basis for their conclusions. Although the Justices were expected to vote on the case in a closed-door session last week, their decision is not likely to be announced until late next...
...moments that followed, my immediate relief and satisfaction turned into anger and indignation. Both parties involved in the debate resorted, on alternate occasions, to attempts to disrupt the meeting. Those unhappy with the decision to overturn last week's action attempted to adjourn the meeting. Members remarked that other parts of the agenda meant nothing in the new context. Although I deeply respect many members of this faction, I believed that the designated agenda for the meeting should not have been ignored as a knee-jerk reaction to the passage of a resolution they opposed. While Frank Lockwood proposed...
...offices of Capitol Hill lawmakers to lobby for a federal law that would keep abortion legal even if the court reverses Roe. Activists dumped 200,000 letters at the Justice Department last week, urging Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to drop his request to the court that it overturn Roe. "This has for the past 15 years been a legal struggle," said Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "It has now become a political struggle...