Fischer , 687 F.3d 514, 517-18 (2d Cir. 2012) (observing that '[t]he Supreme Court has recognized that a `credible' and `compelling' claim of actual innocence may provide a `gateway' through other procedural barriers to habeas relief'). . ... Where a petitioner has not raised an ineffective..…
From 1975 to 1977, Indira Gandhi imposed emergency in the country after Aalabad High court ordered Indira’s accession to power as PM illegitimate because of violation of election laws. ..…
The issue lingered in Israeli civil courts for years until this past September 5, when the High Court of Justice, in an act of stark moral cowardice, decided unanimously that there was no legal impediment to expelling these people from their homes—despite private Palestinian ownership of..…
The very year Bryan ran his crusading campaign (1896), the Supreme Court would hold that segregation was legal when it ruled in the case of Plessy v. ... Indeed, even the Supreme Court ruled, in Buck v. Bell (1927), that compulsory sterilization was fully legal and..…
(Alison Tahmizian Meuse) . . . 26-10-2018 20:36 . . judicial battle between the top brass of India's anti-corruption agency, Supreme Court ordered an enquiry into the allegations against CBI Director Alok Verma and Special Director Rakesh Asthana . ..…
Last week Canada’s Supreme Court ruled that doctors could not unilaterally ignore a Toronto family’s decision to keep their near-dead husband and father on life support. ..…
A week ago, he publicly said that his adversaries should be arrested or exiled, while a video where his son Eduardo said it was easy to close the Supreme Court went viral. . ..…
Yesh Din, which accuses IDF soldiers of perpetrating war crimes and petitions Israel's Supreme Court against IDF... ..…
Several members of Rajapaksa's family -- former Cabinet members and government officials -- are facing charges of corruption and a special high court has been set up to hear the cases quickly. ..…
Supreme Court . 2018 . Key Races . The Forecast . . . . . . . . . . . . ..…
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images . . ... Supreme Court, there hasn’t been much attention—outside of some constitutional law scholars—regarding specifically what that “new majority” might mean for cases already before the..…
The Supreme Court's long-overdue desegregation ruling in Brown v. Board of Education in the 1950s, and Congress's passage of important civil rights legislation in the 1960s, bucked the tide of public opinion, when the general population would likely have voted down those propositions if put..…
Senate candidates Chris Murphy and Matthew Corey clashed Friday over taxes, immigration, foreign affairs, and the fate of Supreme court in their televised debate... ..…
Feminists in the United States are angry at Brett Kavanaugh’s joining the Supreme Court and say it’s time to burn patriarchal institutions to the ground. . ..…
On Friday, October 26, 2018, Supreme Court issued interim directions trying to bring about quietus to the war that has gutted Central Bureau of Investigation and firebombed the enforcement and intelligence structures. ... My apprehensions about the ambiguous legal basis of CBI came true..…
SUPREME COURT NIXES EPA CLIMATE PROGRAM - October 19, 2018 . CO2 Science: Carbon Dioxide Not Temperature Driver - October 12, 2018 . . . . . . ..…
In fact, the Supreme Court has pointed to this very robbery statute as an example of this legislative method. 2 See id. ... The Supreme Court has recognized that the right to present evidence in one's own defense is a fundamental constitutional right. ..…
We recognize that, in the Supreme Court's words, '[i]f an alternative were found to have substantially the same or greater probative value but a lower danger of unfair prejudice, sound judicial discretion would discount the value of the item first offered and exclude it if its discounted..…