111.   The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the law.

112.   The U.S. Supreme Court has generally upheld the laws.

113.   The undisputed champion should uphold the law.

114.   Their employers also have the right to judge their fitness for upholding federal laws that guarantee fair treatment for all citizens.

115.   These competing positions show the ambivalence of many religious people, especially those sworn to uphold the law.

116.   Those laws have been upheld by the federal courts.

117.   Three other federal appeals courts have upheld the law in the course of hearing appeals by people charged with violating it.

118.   Throughout the investigation, Boland stood by the principle of upholding the law but winced at the attention he received.

119.   Thus far, federal district courts in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, California and Illinois have upheld the law.

120.   Two other appeals courts had previously upheld the law, so Supreme Court review is all but inevitable.