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Another defamation suit over Modi documentary, HC issues summons to BBC

The Delhi High Court has reportedly summoned the BBC over a defamation suit filed by a Gujarat-based NGO over the controversial documentary on PM Narendra Modi. This comes weeks after another court issued summons to the British broadcaster over a defamation suit by a BJP leader.

Newslaundry

Editorial: Going the Ron way: DeSantis’ new immigration law and culture wars will backfire

Ron DeSantis doesn’t just want to run for the presidency, the Florida governor seems to already have declared himself president as he tries to wrest clear federal responsibilities away from the U.S. government with a new Florida law that heavily penalizes employment of undocumented immigrants, gives state officials more authority…

Tribune News Service

School jobs scam | Supreme Court to hear Abhishek Banerjee’s plea on May 26

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on May 26 a plea by senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee against his questioning by the CBI in the school jobs scam case.

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Rebecca Payne faces pre-sentence hearing for murdering her husband with drug-laced biscuits at Walpeup

A court has heard Walpeup man Noel Payne was violent and abusive towards his wife and another woman who lived at his property before he was murdered in 2020. His wife Rebecca Payne is to be sentenced for his murder.

ABC News

Judging jallikattu: On the Supreme Court verdict

In sport such as jallikattu, the organisers as well as the respective governments, still bear the burden to prevent infliction of pain and cruelty on animals

The Hindu

Noah Feldman: The court’s Warhol-Prince ruling is pro-artist, anti-art

The Supreme Court has sided with individual artists — but against art itself. In a fascinating copyright decision that transcended ideological lines, the court held that Andy Warhol’s distinctive reworking of a photograph of Prince did not count as fair use, thus requiring the Andy Warhol Foundation to compensate the…

Tribune News Service

Contempt plea filed in SC against U.P., Punjab for having ‘acting’ DGPs

In his contempt petition, petitioner-advocate Brajesh Singh has challenged the appointment of Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Gaurav Yadav as the acting DGP of Punjab.

The Hindu

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Democrats fight to expand a ‘broken and illegitimate’ supreme court

As the US’s highest court is pummeled by divisive rulings and ethical scandals, Democrats think they have a solution: add four seats to counter a rightward tilt

The Guardian - US

Six entities under lens for suspicious trading in Adani shares: Supreme Court panel

Hindenburg’s report claimed that the Adani empire was the “biggest con in corporate history” engaged in a “brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme”

The Hindu

Explained | How has the Supreme Court validated Tamil Nadu’s stand on jallikattu?

Why has the Supreme Court judgment brought cheer to the Tamil Nadu government and supporters of jallikattu?

The Hindu

Tens of thousands protest against planned Israeli judicial overhaul

Tens of thousands of Israelis joined protests across the country, now entering their 20th week, on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's contested plans to tighten controls on the Supreme Court.

Reuters

Shashi Kiran Shetty is new A-G

The Siddaramaiah Cabinet on Saturday chose 47-year-old Senior Advocate K. Shashi Kiran Shetty as the new Advocate-General. Mr. Shetty is the younger son of P. Vishwanath Shetty, a former judge of the High Court of Karnataka and a former Lokayukta.

The Hindu

Ordinance is an insult to Supreme Court, we will challenge it: Kejriwal

Mr. Kejriwal termed the ordinance an “insult” and a “direct challenge to the majesty and power” of the highest court in the country.

The Hindu

Delhi vs Centre row: Centre seeks review of SC verdict that held Delhi govt has control over "services"

The Centre on Saturday approached the Supreme Court seeking review of May 11 Constitution bench judgement in which the apex court held that Delhi government has "legislative and executive power over services" in the national capital. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Salon

Durham report: Bill Barr's final shot

Durham's probe was a massive waste of time and money, instigated by a man who undercut the DOJ's independence

The Hindu

President’s name in a contract is no immunity against the application of law to test its conditions, SC holds

The Supreme Court has held that the government cannot claim immunity from the application of law to a contract merely because one of the parties to it is the President of India.

The Hindu

Centre moves Supreme Court seeking review of May 11 verdict on services row

The Central Government has moved the Supreme Court, seeking review of the May 11 Constitution bench judgment that held that the Delhi government has “legislative and executive power over services” in the national capital.

The Hindu

Madras High Court orders seizure of all BS-IV vehicles sold and registered fraudulently after Supreme Court deadline

The Madras High Court has directed Tamil Nadu Director-General of Police (DGP) to ensure that not even a single Bharat Stage -IV (BS-IV) motor vehicle that had been fraudulently sold and registered in the State, after the deadline fixed by the Supreme Court, continues to ply on the roads. It…

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Book seeks to demystify sedition law

Ensuring the survival of democracy in India is the greatest justification for doing away with the law on sedition and unleashing the full potential of the freedom of speech, says a new book. In "A Constitution to Keep: Sedition and Free Speech in Modern India", Supreme Court lawyer Rohan J…

The Hindu

Centre seeks review of SC verdict that gave Delhi govt. power over services

The Hindu

Abhishek Banerjee appears before CBI in West Bengal school job scam

Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on May 20, 2023, appeared before the CBI in connection with the West Bengal school job scam.

The Hindu

Services row: Centre's ordinance 'unconstitutional', attempt to snatch power from Delhi govt, says AAP

The AAP on May 20 said the Centre’s ordinance on the transfer of bureaucrats in Delhi is “unconstitutional” and a move to snatch the power given to the Delhi government by the Supreme Court in services matters.

The Hindu

SC does not intervene in Calcutta HC order to hand over Ram Navami violence probe to NIA

The Supreme Court on Friday did not intervene in an order of the Calcutta High Court handing over the probe into incidents of violence during Ram Navami celebrations in West Bengal to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Zenger

McCaffery Defeats Kunselman In Democratic Primary For Pennsylvania Supreme Court Seat

Daniel McCaffery defeated Deborah Kunselman in the Democratic primary for one seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on May 16.

Reason

Supreme Court: Andy Warhol's Prince Prints Not 'Transformative' Enough for Fair Use

The case could have long-term implications for how broadly fair use can be applied.

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