Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: Avani Bansal July 20, 2018 2:31 pm Change Font Size The brilliant move by the Supreme Court (SC) in declaring its support for live streaming of its cases, in two PILs filed by Senior Advocate Indira Jaising and Swapnil Tripathi (a law student from NLU Jodhpur), comes at a time when there is serious trust deficit in the workings of the court. The bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice DY Chandrachud should be lauded for a great step towards initiating a move for transparency and openness in the Indian legal system. The SC has asked the Attorney General to submit detailed guidelines on the subject by 23rd July. For anyone who has doubts on the need for such a step, its feasibility, or questions whether it is fair to subject the litigation proceedings to public scrutiny, consider the following. In an environment where fake news on social media is like chaff in the newly-cut grain, news anchors are … [Read more...] about Live Streaming Of Supreme Court Cases—An Idea Whose Time Has Come
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How 2 Supreme Court cases from 1919 shaped the next century of First Amendment law
Home Web First How 2 Supreme Court cases from 1919 shaped… Legal History By David L. Hudson Jr. Posted March 12, 2019, 6:30 am CDT Shutterstock One hundred years ago, modern First Amendment jurisprudence was born with an opinion called the “great dissent.” Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes—along with Louis Brandeis—dissented in a case called Abrams v. United States, a case involving five Russian immigrants charged with violating the Sedition Act of 1918, a federal law designed to quell criticism of the government. In 1919, the U.S. Supreme Court grappled with a series of cases involving the speech of political dissidents charged with violating federal laws designed to quell criticism of the U.S. war effort, draft, or policy toward foreign nations. Historian Paul Murphy famously referred to this period with his book titled World War I and the Origin of Civil Liberties in the United States. Socialists, anarchists, communists, and other political dissidents … [Read more...] about How 2 Supreme Court cases from 1919 shaped the next century of First Amendment law
Opioid family court cases increase
Home In-Depth Reporting Opioid family court cases increase Family Law By Lorelei Laird June 2018 Judge Anthony Capizzi/Photograph courtesy of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. As a juvenile court judge for Montgomery County, Ohio, Anthony Capizzi sees the devastating trickle-down effect of opioids firsthand. “We have so many younger adults who have children using, abusing and, in many cases, dying from the opioid epidemic that we saw a dramatic increase in the number of children in foster care,” says Capizzi, also the president of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. “We are running out of foster beds, placements for children all over the country.” Though the problem is bad in Montgomery County, where the opioid overdose death rate was the highest in Ohio in 2016, the crisis is nationwide. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the rate of babies born addicted to opioids increased by 400 percent from … [Read more...] about Opioid family court cases increase
Shutdown halts civil court cases — including those against Trump
Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Dec. 28, 2018 / 1:26 PM GMT By Associated Press The partial government shutdown prompted the chief judge of Manhattan federal courts Thursday to suspend work on civil cases involving U.S. government lawyers, giving President Donald Trump a reprieve from the progress of some litigation he faces. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon said in a written order that the suspension, requested by U.S. attorneys, will remain in effect for civil litigation involving the United States, its agencies, and its employees until the business day after Trump signs a budget appropriation law restoring Justice Department funding. The Manhattan courts, with several dozen judges, are among the nation's busiest courts. A similar order to McMahon's has been issued in the Northern District of Ohio. In the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn, Chief Judge Dora L. … [Read more...] about Shutdown halts civil court cases — including those against Trump
BCI Kerala and Kerala High Court Case’s Colloquium on Media and Fair Trial [31st Mar; Kochi]
Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: Aasavri Rai March 25, 2018 10:54 am Change Font Size Bar Council of Kerala MK Nambyar Academy for Continuing Legal Education, in association with, Kerala High Court Cases, is organising an inter-professional colloquium on ‘Media, Courts and Fair Trial Guarantee’. Date: 31st March 2018 Venue: Rajgiri College of Business Studies, Kakkanad, Kochi Time: 9:00 AM to 5:45 PM Prof. NR Madhava Menon will deliver the welcome address, followed by Justice R Basant’s presidential address. After the keynote address by Shashi Kumar, Justice Dama Sheshadri Naidu will deliver the inaugural address. The first technical session will be based on the theme ‘Constitutional and Statutory Framework Governing Media Freedom in Relation to Court Proceedings’. The second technical session will be based on the theme ‘Balancing Media Freedom with Fair Trial and the Independence of the Judiciary’. In the … [Read more...] about BCI Kerala and Kerala High Court Case’s Colloquium on Media and Fair Trial [31st Mar; Kochi]