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Reservation for EWS: 5 Must Reads

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Will EWS Reservation Survive?

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property

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Supreme Court to decide whether private property is a “material resource of the community”

The other key question is whether a law advancing wealth redistribution DPSPs can be challenged on grounds of inconsistency with Part III

Constitution Bench

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5 upcoming Constitution Bench judgements before CJI D.Y. Chandrachud retires

Benches led by CJI Chandrachud are expected to deliver five judgements on matters of minority status, arbitration and public employment

Chandrachud's

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The end of the Chandrachud era

Analysing the tenure of the longest-serving Chief Justice since 2012 doesn’t lend itself to easy generalisations and pithy one-liners

Khanna

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Justice Khanna’s era begins

As the incoming Chief Justice, Sanjiv Khanna has the enviable task of balancing continuity with fresh reforms

Industrial Alcohol industries intoxicating Liqour

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Whose power is it anyway?

Justice Nagarathna’s dissents in two recent Constitution Bench matters may suggest that achieving ‘federal balance’ is a delicate thing

prison

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Supreme Court strikes down rules perpetuating caste based segregation and discrimination in prisons | Judgement Summary

We summarise the 148 page landmark ruling that has directed amendments to prison manuals within three months

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What is ‘temporal unreasonableness’ in constitutional law?

In a dissent in the Assam citizenship case, Justice Pardiwala proposed it as a ‘third prong’ to test the arbitrariness of a law. We explain.

Advay Vora

23rd Oct 2024

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From the editor's desk

The differential levels of scrutiny the Court applies to studies on caste vis-a-vis economic backwardness may have deep and abiding implications for how affirmative action policies are crafted in the future, and is especially prescient in a situation where challenges to EWS reservations remain pending.
Can the Supreme Court Provide Reservations for Orphans?

With the petition seeking orphans to be identified as a backward class, are we moving away from a caste centric definition of backwardness.

Part I—The Mandal and Sinho Commissions: A Study in Contrasts

There is a marked difference in the methodology employed by the Mandal and Major Sinho Commissions in studying backwardness.

SC Offers Hope for OBC Reservations in Maharashtra Municipal Elections

The Maharashtra government was directed to submit data justifying its OBC reservation policy to the State Commission for Backward Castes.

Medical Students Relieved as SC Issues Order in PG NEET Case

DESK BRIEF: The SC issued an Order allowing the Union to immediately commence counselling for admissions to postgraduate medical programmes.