Lok Adalat is essentially a process by consensus, through which concerned parties will get their grievances settled through parleys and in the process avoiding unnecessary delay, hyper-technicalities on the pretext of procedural law, reducing the cost of litigation to the barest minimum and above all driving the litigant from pillar to post, through red-tapism. In […]
Republican Minority Denies Women Equal Pay Rights
by James Parks Two days after Equal Pay Day, a minority of primarily Republican senators once again made it harder for women workers to overcome pay discrimination. The Senate failed to cut off debate on the Fair Pay Restoration Act (H.R. 2831) and bring the bill to the floor for a vote. The […]
Dhony’s Tormentor fined Rupees One Lakh
It was a classic case of misuse of the Public Interest Litigation. One Mr.Krishna Chandra Sircar had filed a PIL against one day International Cricket Captain, M.S.Dhoni challenging the construction of a swimming pool in his house in the Jharkhand High Court. The High Court while dismissing the PIL also fined the petitioner a sum […]
The Wheel of Justice
The long arm of the law spares no one as the authorities would often say. But sometimes the law itself is not in conformity to what it is trying to enforce in relation to the legal aspect in view thereof to warrant a prosecution and judgment. As always, cases that had been filed awaiting litigations […]
Chertoff Leaps Legal Barriers in Race to Finish Border Fence Before Year’s End
The Bush administration will use two waivers to skirt barriers that have thwarted its plans to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest US border by the end of this year. The project is nearly half finished, with 309 miles completed mid-March, but laws, regulations and environmental challenges have prevented 267 of the […]
Shut it Down! Human Rights Violations at New Orleans’ Juvenile Detention Center
On January 19, 2007, New Orleanians and several local organizations voiced their support of a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of juvenile inmates awaiting trial and housed at Orleans Parish’s Youth Study Center. The lawsuit was filed by the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana (JJPL), a local nonprofit. The lawsuit targets Richard Winder, the head […]