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The purpose is to make sure that the code of conduct[2] is upheld online.

So, the prosecutor might appeal even though the man has already been punished as much as he'd ask for anyway if the conviction is upheld?

Had Aleynikov made photocopies of the code instead of uploading it, the first conviction would have been upheld.

Sure, its cheaper to do that for both parties, but if they're just waving about a threat that has never been upheld (or not upheld) in court, it creates problems.

What exactly is the point of having a law if you don't expect it to be upheld?

The referendum held 1980 on the discontinuation of the reliance on nuclear power was not upheld either.

But his debunking was criticized by peer reviewed work that upheld the original craniometry work[0].

In essence, they found that the core aspects of marriage were upheld in gay marriages and as such they were due equal protection.

To take it in a slightly different direction, since parody has been upheld, what about a deterministic, reversible, mechanical parodic transformation?

Maybe this is more fitting to Morocco or Tunisia but I can't attest to your observation that it's upheld here in Egypt.

Can anyone find a case in which epithets directed at a cop were the basis of a criminal charge that was (a) contested and (b) upheld?

A New York appeals Court actually upheld the legality of only hiring people with low IQs as cops.

I do think this is silly; the risk is that it gets upheld and sparks a spate of "arresting normal people".

The ruling that had vastly more wide-reaching effects this week is that they upheld the the terrible "Affordable" Care Act.

As ownership (keep) and carriage (bear) of arms has been upheld by the Supreme Court as individual rights, the shift has been more and more towards "feature tests" that are defined as such that the assault weapons fail them.