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Byline: Bar & Bench Their appointments were cleared by the Central government on October 8 this year. Justices Sanjeev Jayendra Thaker , Deeptendra Narayan Ray and Maulik Jitendra Shelat on [...]

Byline: Sarah Jones When Justice Anthony Kennedy retired two years into Donald Trump's term, the Republican president saw an opportunity. He'd promised Evangelical voters that he would appoint anti-abortion justices [...]

Donald Trump is attempting a tricky approach to abortion in the 2024 presidential race. As president, he appointed three of the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade and [...]

Official name Republic of El Salvador Form of state Unitary republic Legal system US-style Supreme Court system National legislature The Legislative Assembly is a 60-member unicameral body elected every three [...]

Byline: Praisy Thomas Justice Nitin Madhukar Jamdar was officially sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court on September 26, 2024, in a ceremony held at Raj [...]

Byline: Bar & Bench The Supreme Court Collegium on Tuesday recommended the appointment of Andhra Pradesh High Court judge Justice Narendar G as the Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court. [...]

Byline: Bar & Bench The Bombay High Court is currently functioning with 66 judges as against its sanctioned strength of 94. The Supreme Court Collegium on Tuesday recommended the names [...]

Byline: Abhimanyu Hazarika Reddy, a Rajya Sabha parliamentarian, has sought a court-monitored probe or the appointment of a retired Supreme Court judge to conduct an independent enquiry into the allegations. [...]

Byline: Bar & Bench The Committee, formed in 2013, was constituted to further the cause of gender sensitisation and address complaints made with regard to sexual harassment within the Supreme [...]

Kamala Harris criticized Donald Trump on abortion during the presidential debate Tuesday. She looked directly at Trump during an impassioned response about the consequences of abortion bans. Harris said she [...]

Byline: Bar The Central government on Monday notified the appointment of six Senior Advocates as Additional Solicitors General (ASGs) to represent it before the Supreme Court. The six Senior Advocates [...]

Byline: Abhimanyu Hazarika The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to Jharkhand's Chief Secretary and acting Director General of Police (DGP) on a plea seeking initiation of contempt of court [...]

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffba536de-573a-4f82-82f4-2a81887b4814_1920x2521.jpeg) A real judge. Boy oh boy, Donald Trump’s lawyers must be missing his self-appointed butt-slurping hacks on the Supreme Court, not to mention Judge Aileen Cannon, the den mother [...]

Donald Trump is striking “a new tone” on abortion—much “to the frustration of anti-abortion advocates,” said Jessica Piper in Politico . Fearing that he’d be punished at the polls for [...]

Byline: Abhimanyu Hazarika A Bench of Justices BR Gavai, Prashant Kumar Mishra and KV Viswanathan took strong exception to the Chief Minister's actions and emphasized the importance of the public [...]

Byline: Debayan Roy 'The Chief Justice of India should also look at phenomenal lady lawyers working in this court and they should be designated as High Court judges. It has [...]

Byline: Prashant Jha The Supreme Court Collegium on Thursday recommended the name of advocate Tejas Dhirenbhai Karia for appointment as a judge of the Delhi High Court. Karia was recommended [...]

What happened Special counsel Jack Smith asked the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday to overturn U.S. District Judge (https://theweek.com/politics/trump-classified-documents-case-dismissed-aileen-cannon) Aileen Cannon's dismissal of the federal (https://theweek.com/us/1024422/why-trump-didnt-just-hand-back-his-boxes-of-top-secret-documents) classified [...]

Byline: Bar & Bench The Supreme Court Collegium on Wednesday recommended the names of three advocates for appointment as judges of the Delhi High Court. The lawyers who have been [...]

Byline: Anadi Tewari The Telangana High Court had earlier refused to issue any positive direction to the Governor for the appointment of the two leaders. The Supreme Court on Wednesday [...]

Byline: Bar The Gujarat High Court which has a sanctioned strength of 52 is currently functioning with 29 judges, a vacancy position of 23. The Supreme Court Collegium on Tuesday [...]

Byline: Debayan Roy The Court said that the fault is not with High Courts since they are overburdened with work and there is shortage of judges. The Supreme Court on [...]

Byline: Swapnil Tripathi The Court has interpreted the Constitution quite literally without undertaking a detailed assessment of the spirit of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act and the relevance of long-standing [...]

Byline: Debayan Roy The Court that the Delhi LG is not bound by the aid and advice of the Delhi government's cabinet on appointment of aldermen since his powers in [...]

Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have lifetime appointments. President Joe Biden thinks that should change. This week he (https://theweek.com/politics/biden-supreme-court-reform-presidential-immunity) introduced a series of proposed court reforms that include limiting [...]

Byline: Abhimanyu Hazarika The Court today appointed Senior Advocate Meenakshi Arora as an amicus curiae to assist in framing directions for all States to address this issue. The Supreme Court [...]

Byline: Debayan Roy A Division Bench of Justices AS Gadkari and Shyam C Chandak passed the order on pleas filed by the five accused challenging 2022 special court orders that [...]

Byline: Swapnil Tripathi Senior Advocate and scholar Arvind Datar, in a recent important article , argued for reviving the neglected Articles 128 and 224-A of the Constitution. These articles provide [...]

Byline: Bar The new appointments are in line with the Supreme Court Collegium's recommendations made on July 9. The Central government on Friday notified the appointment of seven additional judges [...]

Byline: Ratna Singh The Central government on July 18 appointed Senior Advocate and former Madras High Court judge Justice PN Prakash as Special Public Prosecutor to handle matters on behalf [...]

Byline: Debayan Roy The Supreme Court Collegium had on July 11 recommended the appointments of the two judges and it was cleared by the Union government on July 16. Justice [...]

Byline: Bar & Bench The Supreme Court Collegium had on July 11 recommended the appointment of the two judges to the top court. The Central government has notified the appointments [...]

Byline: Anadi Tewari The Supreme Court of India recently appointed advocate Shraddha Deshmukh as the sole arbitrator in an international commercial arbitration. [Acarer Metal Sanayi Ve Ticaret AS v Lalwani [...]

Byline: Bar The Supreme Court Collegium on Thursday recommended the appointment of Justice Tashi Rabstan as the Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court. A resolution to this effect was passed [...]

Byline: Bar & Bench The Supreme Court Collegium on Thursday recommended the appointment of Delhi High Court judge Justice Manmohan as the Chief Justice of the High Court. The decision [...]

Byline: Bar & Bench The Supreme Court Collegium today recommended the appointment of Justice Suresh Kumar Kait as the Chief Justice of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court upon [...]

Byline: Bar & Bench The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the appointment of Bombay High Court judge, Justice Nitin Jamdar as Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court. A resolution [...]

Byline: Bar & Bench The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the appointment of Delhi High Court's Justice Rajiv Shakdher as Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court. 'Mr Justice [...]

Byline: Bar & Bench The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the appointment of Justice Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia of the Punjab and Haryana High Court as Chief Justice of the Madhya [...]

Byline: Bar The Supreme Court Collegium on Tuesday recommended seven additional judges for appointment as permanent judges of the High Court. The Collegium also recommended that two other additional judges [...]

Byline: Abhimanyu Hazarika A letter informing the same was sent by the bar body to Chief Justice Arun Bhansali on Tuesday. The Supreme Court on Monday criticised the Central government [...]

Byline: Abhimanyu Hazarika The Supreme Court on Monday appointed former Chief Justice of India Uday Umesh Lalit to head a committee to oversee the appointments of Vice-Chancellors for public universities [...]

Byline: Arvind Datar With the increasing pendency of cases in the Supreme Court, it is clear that the existing strength of judges would be inadequate to clear the backlog, particularly [...]

Byline: Bar & Bench The development comes more than six months after the Supreme Court Collegium recommended Justice Nagu's appointment as the Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court. [...]

Byline: Bar & Bench Orissa High Court judge Justice Dr BR Sarangi has been been appointed as Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court. The appointment follows a recommendation made [...]

Byline: Anadi Tewari Senior Advocate and former Allahabad High Court judge Justice Vimlesh Kumar Shukla passed away on June 29, Saturday at the age of 69 years. Justice Shukla enrolled [...]

Collective Vengeance, Palmetto Publishing, Joseph Stanley, 19.99 (348p), 979-8-8229-4160-1 Genre: Fiction/Mystery/Thriller A politically charged thriller of accountability and abuses of power, the first of Stanley's Vengeance series, Collective Vengeance follows [...]