The decision did not address the employees' claim, but only affirmed its class action status.

To the contrary, the decision affirmed that marriages are generally a matter to be left to the individual states.

There also has been a decision affirming the right of a tenant to make certain improvements in an apartment.

Nonetheless, the new decision affirms that states still have significant room to decline to finance religion.

Tuesday's decision officially affirmed the validity of the election, but the protests seem likely to continue.

The decision affirmed the rulings of two lower courts, and rejected an appeal by the city.

And the Mayor said the courts' decisions affirmed his view on the limits of the Council's authority.

That decision essentially affirms the federal government's right to hold physicians accountable if they actually take steps to help patients obtain marijuana.

On the other hand, a decision affirming Judge Jackson's ruling would make it politically difficult to drop the case.

The decision affirmed a lower court's landmark ruling.