court's classification under the U.S. Equal Protection Clause of the constitution; use of contemporary contextual analysis in equal protection challenges by courts; and the constitutional adjudications. It mentions several U.S. supreme court cases related to the issue including the Planned Parenthood...
Kenya’s ratification of the CRPD and its recognition of mental health as a disability under the Mental Health (Amendment) Act, 2022, reinforced the Court’s determination that Section 226 was out of step with both domestic and international legal standards (Para.86). Importantly, the judgment ...
Supreme Court's Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule jurisprudence. Topics include the good faith exceptions to the rule, the standing requirements needed in order to apply the rule, and the retributive principle. Information is provided on consequentialism and deterrence-only approaches.Gray...
Consider that very recently a federal appellate court ruled that the 48-year interpretation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which permitted private parties (like the NAACP, ACLU, etc.) to bring cases to prevent or overturn race-based government policies that restricted voting should no longer b...
The Family Law Bill amendment in 2011, article 4, clause 18 says: “family court is entitled as a judicial authority to handle issues related to sex change”. Both laws mention sex change, but do not refer to transsexual persons who undergo sex change surgery. Moreover, there has been no...
The second was a pattern of Appeals Courts going big when encountering particularly strong cases but being very restrained when handling extremely weak appeals. Many of the strongest Appeals Court decisions—Doe v. Stonehill College, Doe v. Columbia University, Doe v. Oberlin University, Doe v. ...
fines where convictions are awarded.Footnote20In the context of civil litigation, cases tend to proceed slowly following the interim stage. As the Supreme Court of India has observed, “[I]n the matters of trademarks, copyrights and patents, litigation is mainly fought between the parties about...
punishment(=when someone punishes a child by hitting them)Corporal punishment is banned in state schools.capital punishment(=death as a punishment for a crime)The are trying to abolish capital punishment except in cases of terrorism.the maximum punishmentThe charge against him carries a maximum ...
On perusing the above amendments it appears that the recognition of need of arrest in certain cases. The Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2008 which came in to force on 1stNovember 2010 vide Notification: S.O.2687 (E) OF MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS DATED 30THOCT 2010.This amendmen...
In 1977, conjoined twins were born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Lakewood, New Jersey; they were treated at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia. Fo