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“One of the goals of a lawsuit is obviously to get money, but another is to get a company to change its behavior,” Marvit explained. “If workers went to arbitration there’s no incentive for Chipotle to change. They’re not facing a big enough threat, and they know they never will.” … [Read more...] about The Supreme Court’s Arbitration Ruling Is Already Screwing Thousands Of Chipotle Workers

In the 5-4 ruling, the court said police generally need a court-approved warrant to get access to the data, setting a higher legal hurdle than previously existed under federal law. The court said obtaining such data without a warrant from wireless carriers, as police routinely do, amounts to an unreasonable search and seizure under the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment. … [Read more...] about Supreme Court Rules Police Must Have A Warrant To Get Cellphone Location Data

“The probing discovery of the kind ordered in the Census case is just the kind of intrusion Hamilton warned against,” Sessions said, according to prepared remarks. “And we are seeing it in case after case. When a hot-button policy issue ends up in litigation, judges are starting to believe their role is to examine the entire process that led to the policy decision — to redo the entire political debate in their courtrooms.” … [Read more...] about Supreme Court Blocks Deposition Of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross In Census Citizenship Question Suit

This decade has seen more extreme gerrymandering, particularly in battleground states such as Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Republicans won sweeping victories in the 2010 midterm elections, and they used their power to redraw election maps so as to maintain control of the House of Representatives. Ohio, for example, has 12 Republicans and four Democrats in the House. North Carolina has a 10 Republicans and three Democrats. A three-judge federal court struck down North Carolina’s map as unconstitutional, but the Supreme Court in January put that decision on hold. … [Read more...] about Supreme Court justices troubled by partisan gerrymandering, but unsure how to control it

“A man cannot directly contest an election, so he constitutes a group of persons to form a political party and contest an election. An association of people… they can come together and start a school, a hospital but when it comes to the matters of governance that matters… it’s a question of electoral integrity,” said the CJI. … [Read more...] about India, Pak Supreme Courts In Sync On Disqualification Of Convicts From Heading Political Parties