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Russia yesterday spearheaded a U.N. protest vote, supported by U.S. allies, that upheld the treaty's integrity.
The Supreme Court upheld his claim, and the government paid him $150,000 for it.
Had the Supreme Court upheld the Colorado law, a binding term limit on all the state's legislators would have put it at a far greater disadvantage than a disposable promise by a few of its legislators.
Connecticut , a 1965 Supreme Court decision that upheld the right to use contraceptives.
The NYT lead explains that at issue is not the strict zoning confinement of adult businesses championed by the Giuliani administration--that has been upheld in court--but rather its attempt to say that a business was adult-oriented if 40 percent or more of its floor space or stock was adults-only.