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

Highlights

• 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

&...

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...

SUPREME COURT JUSTICE AMY CONEY BARRETT ISSUES 1ST OPINION

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• Supreme Court Justice on Thursday delivered her first opinion against an environmental group that sought access to government records

• Barrett wrote for a 7-2 court stating that certain draft documents do not have to be disclosed under the federal Freee...

US SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO STEP IN TO HALT TURNOVER OF TRUMP'S TAX RECORDS

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• This decision by the top court is another defeat to the former Republican president and is the apparent culmination of a lengthy legal tussle

• This move by the Supreme Court holds extreme significance as the tax records of Donald Trump are not supposed ...

BIDEN WILL HAVE TO LIVE UP TO APPOINTING A BLACK WOMAN TO THE SUPREME COURT

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•             Many high profile federal judges are retiring in the next week

•             Biden shall be under pressure to ensure that...

S. KOREA’S SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS GUILTY CONVICTIONS OF SAMSUNG EXECUTIVES

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• S. Korea’s Supreme Court upholds guilty convictions of Samsung Executives.
• The former and current executives are accused of sabotaging labor union activities at a subsidiary company.
• Kang Kyung Hoon, a vice presiden...

36 MEMBERS OF US CONGRESS ASK FOR REVIEW OF ACQUITTAL IN DANIEL PEARL’S MURDER CASE

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• 36 US Congress members urged the nation to undertake a complete review of acquittal of Ahmed Omar Saeed Shaikh in the case of 2002 killing of the Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl

• In the month of January, Pakistan’s Supreme Court had or...