The constitutionality of the bill was challenged and in December 2003, the Supreme Court upheld most provisions of the legislation.

The court upheld other provisions of the injunction, including measures that barred demonstrators from trespassing, making loud noise and impeding the flow of patients and staff.

Five justices had voted in a closed-door conference to uphold provisions in a restrictive Pennsylvania abortion law.

Spellman cited the Supreme Court's decision which upheld such provisions, accusing her of anti-Catholicism.

Spellman pointed out that the Supreme Court had recently upheld such provisions.

A majority opinion by Justice Breyer upheld record-keeping provisions imposed on broadcasters.

But the Court of Appeals, in ruling on the two cases, upheld provisions enforced by the state's Commission on Judicial Conduct that regulate judges' political activities.

It upheld provisions requiring women to wait 24 hours for an abortion after receiving specific "informed consent" information from doctors designed to encourage the woman to change her mind.

The Supreme Court today upheld provisions of a 1978 law that protect laid-off airline employees, even though a related part of the statute had been ruled unconstitutional.

Georgia's amendment was made following 1898 and 1903 Supreme Court decisions that had upheld similar provisions in the constitutions of Mississippi and Alabama.