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Supreme Court

noun as in highest federal court

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Advocates of direct shipping won a major Supreme Court ruling in 2004, but that left some issues unresolved.

In September 2020, Semenya lost her long-running legal battle at Switzerland’s Supreme Court, preventing her from competing at the Tokyo Olympics unless she agrees to medical interventions to lower her testosterone.

From Time

We have the Supreme Court ruling in Bostock, a ruling that adds to the momentum.

The United Kingdom's Supreme Court ruled Friday that Uber drivers should be classified as "workers" and not self-employed independent contractors, dealing a major blow to the ride-hailing giant's business model.

From Axios

The Supreme Court ruling does not apply to two other sections of civil rights law — regarding all federally funded programs and public spaces and services — because they do not currently prohibit sex discrimination.

Higher courts, including the Supreme Court had refused to intercede, and the stay was to expire tonight.

The Supreme Court eventually stepped in and ended legal segregation in the landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education.

I was convicted a year later and sentenced to death—a charge later overturned by the Supreme Court when it called for a retrial.

The Supreme Court justices who decided the Integrity case make $244,440 a year (Chief Justice Roberts makes $255,500).

The Supreme Court just handed a big holiday present to low-wage workers across America in the form of a giant f*ck you.

He was personally responsible for creating a strong foundation for the Supreme Court.

He was chosen justice of the supreme court at the first judicial election held under the new state constitution.

In the preparation of briefs and in oral arguments before the Supreme Court, Fitch was the superior.

If you pull that ground-lease business on us and try to drive us out, we'll fight you all the way up to the Supreme Court.

But without heeding this the Assembly conferred upon the Supreme Court the power of injunction.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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