Category: Supreme Court

Source – edition.cnn.com Washington (CNN)House Democrats are well within their authority to subpoena President Donald Trump’s financial papers, House lawyers told the Supreme Court on Thursday. As soon as Friday, the justices could decide whether to allow a subpoena to Trump’s long time accounting firm to go forward, while they consider whether to take up the president’s

Source – voanews.com WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that would have required President Donald Trump to turn over some of his financial records to a Democratic-led committee in the House of Representatives. Trump, in two conflicts with opposition lawmakers and prosecutors investigating his finances, has sought

Source – hindustantimes.com A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi will rule on Wednesday on whether the CJI’s office is covered by the transparency law, the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The Supreme Court verdict will come on a petition filed by Central Public Information Officer

Source – indiatoday.in he All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) will be filing a review petition against the Supreme Court verdict on the Ayodhya dispute. Maulana Arshad Madani said on Sunday after a meeting of the board that although they do not have much hope, a review petition will be filed. AIMPLB has also

Source – earthjustice.org In late 2014, residents of the small town of Belton in Anderson County, South Carolina, noticed something amiss as they readied for the holidays. The plants along a rural stretch of road were unexpectedly dying. On Christmas Eve, someone walking along that same country road reported to local authorities the strong smell

Source – vox.com Not that long ago, the Tenth Amendment was the new hotness in Republican circles. Shortly after President Obama took office, Republicans looked to the amendment — a states’ rights provision providing that the federal government’s powers are not limitless — as a way to prevent the federal government from doing much of

Source – telegraphindia.com The Supreme Court has set aside a Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment that had handed the meagre sentence of four days to four men who had caused grievous injuries to four others with axes and sticks, regretting “cavalier sentencing” by lower courts. It has enhanced the punishment to three months for three

Source – telegraphindia.com Government-specified “green crackers” with special logo and machine-readable code are yet to find their way to Jharkhand this year. The Supreme Court, in a landmark ruling in October 2018, had banned conventional firecrackers and enforced a two-hour limit (8pm – 10pm) for setting them off during Diwali. Earlier this month, Union minister

Source – cnbc.com Janet Napolitano used to set records for the number of people she deported from the United States in a single year, angering immigrant-rights groups. In her new role, the former Homeland Security secretary under President Barack Obama has those groups on her side. Next month, Napolitano will head to war against President

Source – grist.org A court case between the city of Baltimore and a group of energy companies will be permitted to continue after the Supreme Court earlier this week rejected the latter’s attempt to freeze the case. The litigation, which the city initiated in 2018, alleges that the energy companies are liable “for their direct emissions of greenhouse gases”