31.   Prosecutor Vural Savas urged the court to issue a speedy decision upholding the verdict.

32.   She felt confident the verdict would be upheld.

33.   The California Supreme Court upheld that verdict, but Simpson plans to appeal to the federal courts.

34.   The execution was carried out after the death verdict was upheld by the Supreme Court.

35.   The original verdict was upheld on appeal in Belfast and in the House of Lords in London.

36.   The South Korean government appealed the ruling to a higher court, but villagers were confident the verdict would be upheld.

37.   The ruling upheld verdicts of lower German courts that any ban over two years for athletes violates the right to work guaranteed by the German constitution.

38.   The state Supreme Court upheld the verdict but ordered resentencing.

39.   The three-judge panel unanimously upheld the verdict, although Judge Rosemary Barkett said one of the jury instructions was flawed enough to warrant a reversal.

40.   Time Warner, now AOL Time Warner, appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court after the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Georgia Supreme Court upheld the verdict.