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CJI Balakrishnan admitted to hospital
4 hours ago ago from ::News4u::
News4u-News Desk- Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan has been admitted in a hospital in New Delhi Wednesday morning following a stomach ailment, court sources said. 64-year-old Justice Balakrishan, who has been unwell since last evening, has been taken toApollo Hospital, they said. The CJI will not be presiding over his court on Wednesday, they said. Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan
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11 hours ago ago from JONATHAN TURLEY
John Yoo is being defended in court this month by the Administration. Not the Bush Administration. The Obama Administration. As with the lawsuits over electronic surveillance and torture, the Obama administration wants the lawsuit against Yoo dismissed and is defending the right of Justice Department officials to help establish a torture program an established war crime. I will be discussing this issue tonight on MSNBC Countdown. ...
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19 hours ago ago from SCOTUSblog
Decisions handed down by the Court in four cases yesterday dominate today’s headlines. The AP , MSNBC , ABC News , JURIST , and the BLT all have coverage of the Court’s decision in Mohawk Industries v. Carpenter , an attorney-client privilege dispute that was also Justice Sotomayor’s first opinion since she joined the Court. The Court held unanimously that disputes in federal court about the attorney-client privilege cannot be appealed right ...
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10 hours ago ago from Right Angle
By Swapan Dasgupta In Alan Bennett's celebrated play 'Forty Years On', there is an amusing but poignant scene centred on the trial of Neville Chamberlain by the 'Court of History'. This court, the presiding judge informs the disoriented accused, is not a 'Court of Justice'. We judge solely by appearances, and i don't like yours. In a court where the presentation of evidence follows the sentencing, Chamberlain is held guilty for his ...
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10 hours ago ago from CYBER LAWS IN INDIA
Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for judicial purposes in India received another major setback when even the Delhi High Court failed to establish the proposed e-court . At Delhi High Court the litigants and lawyers cannot file cases electronically, evidence cannot be submitted through Internet and many more prerequisites of e-courts are still missing. It seems, India has once again failed to establish the first e-court of ...
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Man gets year in jail for urinating on officer
13 hours ago ago from Good News Now
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. -A Waldo man accused of urinating on a police officer during his fifth drunken-driving arrest has been sentenced to a year in jail. Court records released Wednesday show 36-year-old Daniel L. Shilts Jr. of Waldo was also fined about $3,600 and had his driver's license revoked for three years. The Sheboygan Press said according to the criminal complaint, Shilts was pulled over in November 2008 in Plymouth after an officer saw ...
Related contentSotomayor Draws Testy Retort From Clarence Thomas In Debut Decision
18 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The New York Times : The Supreme Court released its first four decisions in argued cases this term on Tuesday. They were all minor, but one was notable for being Justice Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court debut and for prompting a testy concurrence from Justice Clarence Thomas. The case concerned whether federal trial-court rulings concerning the lawyer-client privilege may be appealed right away. Justice Sotomayor, with methodical reasoning ...
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21 hours ago ago from BBC
By William Horsley BBC News, Strasbourg At 50 years old, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg is sometimes held up as a model for the rest of the world - the only supranational court devoted to protecting individual human rights against abuses of state power. Judgements at the court take an average of six years or more But its future is now the subject of a highly sensitive debate that ...
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