The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial body in the country. It serves as the final authority for interpreting the Indian Constitution. The SC judges are appointed by the President of India.
This discretion of the government was curtailed by the Supreme Court in the Second Judges Case (1993), in which the Supreme Court ruled that the senior most judge of the Supreme Court should alone be appointed to the office of the Chief Justice of India.What...
State Age Limits for Judges Upheld;Supreme Court Ruling Preserves Local Retirement RegulationsRuth Marcus
I know that all these court shows pay the damages on behalf of the litigant who was so ordered to pay in the ruling (it comes out of their appearance fee, I believe). I also know that Judge Judy (and all the rest) are not proper judges, but are instead arbitrators, but at least ...
Justice Ginsburg’s article “Workways of the United States Supreme Court” and recent correspondence with brother blogger Mark Cohen has led me to reflect on what is known (and what I know) about how cases progress through the Supreme People’s Court (SPC). It is from the small details ...
Amy Coney Barrett, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2020. She was the 115th person, and the fifth woman, to serve on the Supreme Court. Barrett’s nomination and confirmation sparked political controversy on both substanti
Ketanji Brown Jackson is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
John Paul Stevens, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1975 to 2010. He was known as an independently minded justice who occupied a moderately liberal position on the court. Stevens previously served as a circuit judge on the
John G. Roberts, Jr., 17th chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. Nominated as chief justice by President George W. Bush, he was confirmed by the Senate in September 2005. He was known as an institutionalist who promoted a view of the Court as