In Myers v. United States,, the Supreme Court held that Congress could not limit the President's power to remove an executive officer ( the Postmaster General ), but in Humphrey's Executor v. United States, it upheld Congress's authority to restrict the President's power to remove officers of the Federal Trade Commission, an " administrative body cannot in any proper sense be characterized as an arm or eye of the executive.

This ruling has not been overturned, however, in modern times, similar civil rights legislation has been upheld under Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce under Article One, Section 8 of the Constitution.

On a somewhat different note, Justice Byron White, in dissent, argued the entire law should have been upheld, in deference to Congress's greater knowledge and expertise on the issue.

The view taken by several of the Indian Land Claims Settlements is that Congress may consent to such conveyances retroactively ; this view has not been tested in court, although it is likely to be upheld because the power of Congress to extinguish aboriginal title without compensation is plenary.

Selig decided to uphold the 20 games, however, an independent arbitrator ruled that Selig had exceeded his authority and reduced it to 13 games, but upheld the fine.

Influenced perhaps by his experience as a state governor, Hughes authored a series of decisions that upheld state laws that affected — and, it might be argued, infringed on — congressional authority over interstate commerce.

The congress concluded without Nurmi being declared a professional, but the council's authority to disbar an athlete was upheld on a 13 – 12 vote.

In Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation,, the Supreme Court upheld the Federal Communications Commission's authority to restrict the use of " indecent " material in broadcasting.

Sir Francis, by authority of King James I, upheld the use of the common injunction and concluded that in the event of any conflict between the common law and equity, equity would prevail.

South Dakota challenged this in 2004 in district court, which upheld DOI's authority to take the land in trust.

In a 1971 advisory opinion, the International Court of Justice upheld UN authority over Namibia, determining that the South African presence in Namibia was illegal and that South Africa therefore was obliged to withdraw its administration from Namibia immediately.

The proper interpretation of the Scriptures was seen as part of the faith of the Church, and seen indeed as the manner in which Biblical authority was upheld ( see Book of Acts 15: 28-29 ).

The authority of the school board was upheld by the Supreme Court when it refused to hear a challenge by a group of students and parents.

The Supreme Court decided that the suspension of habeas corpus was lawful, but military tribunals did not apply to citizens in states that had upheld the authority of the Constitution and where civilian courts were still operating.

During his concluding years the archbishop appears to have upheld the papal authority in England, although not to the injury of the English Church.

In general, however, especially in later years, he opposed reform: he defended the tutorial system, and in a controversy with Connop Thirlwall ( 1834 ), opposed the admission of Dissenters ; he upheld the clerical fellowship system, the privileged class of " fellow-commoners ," and the authority of heads of colleges in university affairs.

Courts have upheld the authority of the government to restrict the gun rights of categories of people, including criminals, the mentally ill, etc., ruling that prohibiting a narrow category of people from owning firearms does not violate the second amendment.

Meanwhile, the U. S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, and Seventh Circuits upheld the two-member NLRB's authority to decide cases, while the D. C.

The views of the bishop were upheld and henceforth authority was divided.

In Parker v The Queen ( 1963 ), Chief Justice Sir Owen Dixon led a unanimous judgment which rejected a precedent of the House of Lords in DPP v Smith saying, " I shall not depart from the law on this matter as we have long since laid it down in this Court and I think that Smith's case should not be used in Australia as authority at all "; the following year the Privy Council upheld an appeal, applying the House of Lords precedent.

Charlemagne is portrayed as vengeful and treacherous in these stories, and he is fooled by the sorcerer Maugris ; the sympathy of the storyteller is clearly with the four brothers, but ultimately feudal authority is upheld.

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia upheld the act, rejecting an argument that it was an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority, by citing statutes such as: " Beacon Theatres, Inc. v. Westover, 359 U. S. 500, 507, 79 S. Ct.

The other Supreme Court justices upheld Blanchard ’ s authority 4-2.

A more radical sect soon formed — the Taborite sect — the Taborites, who took their name from the city of Tábor, their stronghold in southern Bohemia, rejected church doctrine and upheld the Bible as the sole authority in all matters of belief.

Lustiger upheld papal authority in theology and morals: " There are opinions and there is faith ," he said in 1997.

Democrats objected and took McKernan to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, however the court subsequently upheld the governor's authority to take such action.

The decisions made by this High Court must be upheld, per se the Law of Moses ( Deuteronomy 17 ), this gives their legal rulings divine authority.

* 1733 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.

* May 29 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec.

" His decision in favor of freeing a family of American Indian descent was upheld by the Virginia Supreme Court, although his reasoning based on the Declaration of Rights ' applying to all was not.

This film repeats the usual conservative agenda of family, courtship and marriage, but it proposes that Indian family values are portable assets that can be upheld regardless of country of residence.

Neither the attribution of the lateen to the Arabs nor its origin in the Indian Ocean can any longer be upheld:

He founded Dharma Productions in 1976 and made Hindi films that were noted for featuring lavish sets and exotic locations, but upheld Indian traditions and family values.

Golwalkar was vehemently opposed the concept of a secular Indian state and always upheld the Hindu identity of India.

The upshot of this ruling not only upheld export limitations on the grounds of national security ( similar ones still exist today ) but also established the broader principle of executive supremacy in national security and foreign affairs – one of the reasons advanced in the 1950s in favor of the almost-successful attempt to add the Bricker Amendment to the Constitution.

This case upheld the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 with a majority of the Court finding that the external affairs power allowed the Commonwealth to pass such legislation as a consequence of Australia's obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

For example, in Gavle v. Little Six, Inc., 555 N. W. 2d 284 ( Minn. 1996 ), the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld abstention where the state court might " undermine the authority of the tribal courts over Reservation affairs " or " infringe on the right of Indians to govern themselves ".

The case upheld the validity of the Racial Discrimination Act, and endorsed the Australian Government's use of the " external affairs " power to implement treaties not directly relating to other countries, an interpretation that would later become important in cases such as the Tasmanian Dam case, where a majority of four judges would adopt the reasoning favoured by Mason, Murphy and Brennan in this case.

In its ruling, the state Board of Education upheld Dr. Michael F. Walsh, state commissioner of education, who had ruled previously that the Warwick board erred when it named Maurice F. Tougas as coordinator of audio-visual education without first finding that the school superintendent's candidate was not suitable.

The mens rea for assault is simply " evil intent ", although this has been held to mean no more than that assault " cannot be committed accidentally or recklessly or negligently " as upheld in Lord Advocate's Reference No 2 of 1992 where it was found that a " hold-up " in a shop justified as a joke would still constitute an offence.

Following this ruling, Alford petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, which upheld the initial ruling, and subsequently to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which ruled that Alford's plea was not voluntary, because it was made under fear of the death penalty.

An appeal was upheld in 2004.

The decision of the United States Supreme Court upheld the right to bridge navigable streams, therefore the bridge was allowed to remain.

He agreed that the UK and US should carefully negotiate the details of the marine reserve to assure that US interests were safeguarded and the strategic value of BIOT was upheld.

DADT was upheld by five of the federal Courts of Appeal, The Supreme Court, in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc. ( 2006 ), unanimously held that the federal government could constitutionally withhold funding from universities, no matter what their nondiscrimination policies might be, for refusing to give military recruiters access to school resources.

On the other hand, in World War II, diplomatic immunity was upheld and the embassies of the belligerents evacuated through neutral countries.

Still, Luther insisted that the letter upheld the social status quo: though not explicit, the text could be interpreted to indicate that Paul did nothing to change Onesimus's legal position as a slave and that Paul was complying with Roman law in returning him to Philemon.

He introduced Christianity, and, though he was subsequently murdered, Norwegian supremacy was upheld and continued.

In a famous Canadian Charter of Rights case, " Sandra Bell vs. City of Toronto ", 1997, the right to cultivate all native species, even most varieties deemed noxious or allergenic, was upheld as part of the right of free expression.

This arrangement was upheld by the Reichstag in 1752.

The mandatory nature of such resolutions was upheld by the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) in its advisory opinion on Namibia.

The courts upheld fingerprinting, but the law was changed so that fingerprinting was done once rather than with each renewal of the registration, which until a law reform in 1989 was usually required every six months for anybody from the age of 16.

The summary judgment ruling was upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, but was unanimously reversed by the US Supreme Court in a decision titled MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.

The verdict, which was eventually upheld by Norway's highest court, awarded the gallery USD 2. 6 million in damages.

Although the non-trademarkability of the term Loglan was eventually upheld by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, many supporters and members of The Loglan Institute find this usage offensive, and reserve Loglan for the TLI version of the language.

In 2008, a three-judge panel of the U. S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the murder conviction but ordered a new capital sentencing hearing because the jury was improperly instructed.

Scottish author Hugh Blair's 1763 A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian upheld the work's authenticity against Johnson's scathing criticism and from 1765 was included in every edition of Ossian to lend the work credibility.

Oviedo became the Colorado candidate for president in the 1998 election, but when the Supreme Court of Paraguay upheld in April his conviction on charges related to the 1996 coup attempt, he was not allowed to run and remained in confinement.