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...
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...
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...
Key to the Court’s reasoning was the recognition of suicidal ideation as a manifestation of mental illness, as defined under the Mental Health (Amendment) Act, 2022. The Court’s reliance on Article 2(4) of the Constitution—which invalidates any law inconsistent with the Constitution—and it...
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 ...
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. ...
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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...
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...
Wade—a case that affirmed the legality of a woman’s right to have an abortion under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution—although this right remains controversial (Supreme Court of the United States 1973). The court case of the Arkansas conjoined twins was occurring ...