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Lok Sabha can reinstate Rahul Gandhi after receiving an instruction from the Supreme Court.
After receiving a copy of the Supreme Court's order staying Rahul Gandhi's conviction in the Modi surname remark case, the Lok Sabha can begin the reinstatement procedure for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as an MP from Wayanad.
Rahul or his representative must present a copy of t...
After looking into the printer problems that occurred during the 2022 election, Maricopa County concluded that "equipment failure" was to blame.
Former Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court Ruth McGregor conducted an independent investigation into a printer issue at several Maricopa County precincts that prevented some ballots from being properly scanned on site during Election Day 2022.
Officials in the state's most po...
Contempt-of-court lawyer in $9.5 billion Chevron environmental lawsuit has appeal to the Supreme Court denied.
A disbarred lawyer who won a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron in an environmental case in Ecuador was jailed for contempt of court on Monday, but the Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal.
Lawyer Steven Donziger got six months behind bars for ignoring a judge's order to han...
Google's $168 billion in advertising revenue is at stake in a Supreme Court case
Google is being sued by the family of Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old US citizen who was among at least 130 people murdered in coordinated Islamic State attacks in Paris in November 2015. The family claims that Google's YouTube should be held accountable for automated suggestions of Islamic St...
Democrats Consider Their Options Following the Supreme Court's Decision on Trump Taxes
Democrats in Congress faced the onerous chore of analyzing six years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns on Wednesday, as Republicans prepared to reclaim control of the House of Representatives in less than six weeks.
Members of the Democratic-led House Ways and Means Com...
Regarding affirmative action, the Supreme Court has sent mixed signals about its view on using race as a factor in university admissions.
On Monday, in one of the most contentious arguments to come before the court this year, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court sent a strong signal of skepticism regarding the practice of race-conscious admissions at American universities.
The admissions departments at both Harv...
A victory for Bolsonaro could threaten the Supreme Court's autonomy in Brazil.
Concerns over the future of Brazil's young democracy have been stoked by President Jair Bolsonaro's threats to nominate new judges to the Supreme Court. Bolsonaro is making threats to rally his supporters and then walking them back to win over swing voters between the two presidential ele...
Felix Finds Abortion Restrictions 'Shocking'
Allyson Felix, who holds the record for most medals won by a woman in the history of track and field, referred to the decision of the United States Supreme Court to abolish the constitutional right to an abortion as "shocking" and a "step down" for women. Felix currently holds...
Abortion politics' extraterritorial character
The leaked draught majority decision of the US Supreme Court in Dobbs versus Jackson Women's Health Organisation has increased the politicisation of abortion in the United States in the run-up to November's mid-term elections, signalling the likely reversal of Roe vs Wade.
Much ...
Supreme Court judges and other stakeholders were enlisted, and legislation was enacted to achieve this goal
During her term, she devoted a significant amount of time to programmes aimed at empowering and protecting women. Kaminara travelled to Balochistan multiple times in order to establish a legal system that would safeguard women. Supreme Court judges and other stakeholders were enlisted, and legisl...
US Supreme Court Goes Ahead with Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers
The Supreme Court of United States announced on Thursday that large businesses did not require their employees to be vaccinated for the Covid-19 nor present weekly negative test results as per the previous instruction by the Biden administration.
However, the court has ruled that health...
Amazon initiating probe against some of it's legal representatives in India
Highlights
• Amazon has not yet confirmed or denied the allegations
• The CAIT has demanded that names of officials involved
Amazon is probing bribery...
US SUPREME COURT TURNS DOWN TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S PLEA TO SCRAP OBAMACARE
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• It was liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, who authored the decision
• Encouraging more Americans to reap benefits out of Obamacare, the US President Joe Biden said "it is time to move forward and keeping building on this landmark law."
...JAPAN’S PM APOLOGIZES FOR NEGLIGENCE IN PROTECTION OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS
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- Japan’s PM apologizes for negligence in protection of construction workers.
- The asbestos construction workers had contracted lung cancer and other illnesses.
- The Supreme Court of Japan ruled that the state should ha...
MENG’S DEFENSE TEAM TO ASK CANADIAN COURT TO DELAY UPCOMING HEARINGS
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- Meng’s defense team to ask Canadian court to delay upcoming hearings.
- The Huawei CFO’s case lasted more than two years.
- Meng’s upcoming hearing is scheduled to be in the British Columbia Supreme Court on...
US SUPREME COURT HANDS GOOGLE A VICTORY IN THE SUIT AGAINST ORACLE
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• Overturning a lower court’s ruling, the US Supreme Court handed the Alphabet-owned company a victory saying that it did not violate federal copyright law
• The Sundar Pichai-led company was sued by Oracle Corp. in the year 2010 over copyright infri...
U.S. SUPREME COURT ENDS LEGAL BATTLE BETWEEN TRUMP & TWITTER
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• The court found the dispute was debatable, throwing out the decision made by a lower court which had said that the US President had violated constitutional free speech rights
• Thomas wrote “We will soon have no choice but to address how our legal ...
US SECRETARY OF STATE BLINKEN HAD A WORD WITH DANIEL PEARL'S FAMILY & HAS ASSURED OF JUSTICE
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• State Department Spokesperson Price said that Blinken spoke with the members of the family of Daniel Pearl, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal
• Pearl was abducted and beheaded at the time when he was in Pakistan investigating a story in...
US SUPREME COURT TURNS AWAY FACEBOOK'S APPEAL TO SCRAP $15 BN LAWSUIT
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• The litigation has accused Facebook of violating the Wiretap Act, a federal law, saying the company has been secretly tracking the visits of users to websites
• Facebook's appeal was turned down by the justices as they declined to hear it
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NIRMALA SITHARAMAN: INDIA IS OPEN TO EXPERIMENTATION IN REF. TO CRYPTO
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• Indian government will look at taking a stand on the cryptocurrency domain
• Technology is something that India cannot ignore
The India...