With the Supreme Court Verdict, India Takes the First Step towards Transgender ReformsSubramonian, Surabhi
” Roberts wrote. And yet, he added, “for the past several decades,” both parties have respected court decisions and have headed off the kind of constitutional confrontations that arose during the civil rights era when some southern states declined court orders to integrate....
At least 24 states have adopted restrictions on transgender women and girls in women’s and girls’ sports competitions. There have also been legal challenges to those laws, with mixed verdicts so far. Prelogar said that’s a different issue and suggested...
KEY TAKEWAYS- Analysing the Supreme Court’s recent judgement on the right to marry vis-s-vis homosexuals. The consideration of public’s opinion and morality. Realising the other rights of homosexuals. INTRODUCTION:-In a landmark decision,
Indian supporter of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community take part in a pride parade in Bhopal, July 15, 2018.Getty A New Delhi High Court in 2009 declared Section 377 unconstitutional, but that decision was overturned in a ruling by three Supreme Court justices in 201...
A month after the verdict, theSupreme Court ruledthat ex-presidents can’t be prosecuted for official acts — things they did in the course of running the country — and that prosecutors can’t cite those actions to bolster a case centered on purely per...
The former president’s lawyers contend much of it implicated “core” executive functions, which the Supreme Court made clear are absolutely protected. “In order to vindicate the Presidential immunity doctrine, and protect the interests implicated by its underpinnings, the jury’s verdicts must ...
By tradition, if the chief justice is in the majority, he selects which justice (including himself) will author the court’s verdict. If he is in the minority, the longest-serving member of the majority makes the decision-writing appointment. Since the era of John Marshall, chief justice ...