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In response, White House lawyers immediately invoked the attorney-client privilege, a claim upheld by a trial court.
The Fourth Amendment spin is that the court, having upheld a series of drug-testing laws (for railroad crews, customs-service workers, and student athletes), finally encountered one too preposterous to tolerate.
Festivals are where superficially modern Japan gives way to the old, where ancient traditions are upheld, especially in remote rural districts.
In 1878, the Supreme Court upheld the conventional view that the prohibition represents permissible intervention by the state to protect the weak against entering into exploitative relationships.
What no one talked about was that from the Middle Ages through the Reformation era, Christian moral theology, both Catholic and Protestant, has upheld other principles relevant to Flytrap: above all, that "nemo tenetur detegere turpitudinem suam ." That does not translate as "thou shalt not lie with interns (nor lie about it thereafter)."