What is "upheld"

Usage examples of "upheld".

Soon thereafter it upheld an act which directed the Secretary of the Treasury to promulgate minimum standards of quality and purity for tea imported into the United States.

Without disavowing this general proposition, the Court, in 1944, upheld a suspension order issued by the OPA whereby a dealer in fuel oil who had violated rationing regulations was forbidden to receive or deal on that commodity.

Court upheld the tax on the basis of its designation, giving scant attention to its apportionment feature.

Granger Cases decided in 1877 the Court upheld the power of the legislature of Wisconsin in the absence of legislation by Congress, to prescribe by law the maximum charges to be made by a railway company for fare and freight upon the transportation of persons and property within the State, or taken up outside the State and brought within it, or taken up inside and carried without it.

State laws prohibiting the importation of intoxicating liquor, have since the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment consistently been upheld, even when imposing a burden on interstate commerce or discriminating against liquor imported from another State.

Court upheld a State law prohibiting the sale in open market of convict-made goods including sales of goods imported from other States and still in the original package.

Court upheld the application to oranges which were intended for the interstate market of a Florida statute prohibiting the sale, shipment, or delivery for shipment of any citrus fruits which were immature or otherwise unfit for consumption.

Court upheld the right of Minnesota to exclude from its courts a firm licensed by the National Government to carry on the business of customs broker because of its failure to comply with a State statute requiring foreign corporations to obtain a license to do business in the State.

War Time Prohibition Act adopted after the signing of the Armistice was upheld as an appropriate measure for increasing war efficiency.

A limit in time, to tide over a passing trouble, well may justify a law that could not be upheld as a permanent change.

In 1892, the Court upheld the jurisdiction of the United States to try a person charged with murder on a military reservation, over the objection that the State had ceded jurisdiction only over such portions of the area as were used for military purposes, and that the particular place on which the murder was committed was used solely for farming.

Minnesota asserted the right to tax the equitable interest of the purchaser in such land, and the Supreme Court upheld its right to do so.

But a statute which denied to polygamists the right to vote in a territorial election, was upheld even as applied to a person who had not practiced polygamy since the act was passed, because the law did not operate as an additional penalty for the offense of polygamy but merely defined it as a disqualification of a voter.

State recording act upheld as applying to deeds dated before the passage of the act.

The Court also upheld a tax on the sale of gasoline for use by an air transport line in conducting interstate transportation across the State in Eastern Air Transport, Inc.