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Nevada's new 2025 laws: What you need to know
6 days, 16 hours ago

Nevada's new 2025 laws: What you need to know

India Today  

The new year has arrived, and so have the new laws in Nevada. Here’s an overview of the key changes: Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities Nevada employers can no longer pay workers with disabilities less than the state minimum wage. This exemption will remain in effect until 2050 Paid Caregiving for Families of Dementia Patients Family members who care …

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From abortion restrictions to the ‘Taylor Swift bill’: These are the new laws across the US for 2025
1 week, 4 days ago

From abortion restrictions to the ‘Taylor Swift bill’: These are the new laws across the US for 2025

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Here are just some of the new laws set to begin across the nation …

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Supreme Court Warns Against Misuse of Cruelty Law in Marital Disputes
4 weeks, 2 days ago

Supreme Court Warns Against Misuse of Cruelty Law in Marital Disputes

Deccan Chronicle  

The court’s warning highlights growing concerns over the misuse of Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalizes cruelty against women in marriage. Addressing the issue in a separate but related case, the apex court remarked that the law “cannot be misused as a personal tool to unleash vendetta.” The bench stressed that while the law serves an important …

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HNLU: Regional Consultation On 'Cyber Laws And Women: A Critical Analysis' In Collaboration With National Commission For Women [16th December]
1 month, 4 weeks ago

HNLU: Regional Consultation On 'Cyber Laws And Women: A Critical Analysis' In Collaboration With National Commission For Women [16th December]

Live Law  

Hidayatullah National Law University, in partnership with the National Commission for Women, will host a One-Day Regional Consultation on 'Cyber Laws and Women: A Critical Analysis' at its Raipur campus on November 16, 2024. Kalluri, IPS, Additional Director General of Police, Chhattisgarh, will serve as the Chief Guest, while Ms. Monika Yadav, Deputy Secretary, National Commission for Women, Delhi, will …

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Arizona voters pass constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion access
2 months ago

Arizona voters pass constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion access

NPR  

Arizona voters pass constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion access toggle caption FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images PHOENIX – Arizonans approved a ballot measure to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, according to a call by the Associated Press. They argued the state’s abortion law already allowed enough access, since most abortions take before the 15th week of pregnancy, and …

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Nature law reforms likely to be delayed as Labor struggles to win Greens support for pared-back EPA
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Nature law reforms likely to be delayed as Labor struggles to win Greens support for pared-back EPA

ABC  

Cross-party negotiations to rescue the government's cornerstone election commitment for nature law reform are set to spill into next month, as Labor struggles to convince the Greens to vote for a pared-back environmental protection agency. Labor and the Greens are still hashing out whether to include a "climate trigger" in the EPA legislation, part of the biggest overhaul of habitat …

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Elizabeth Warren cuts off CNBC host's patronizing economics "lecture"
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Elizabeth Warren cuts off CNBC host's patronizing economics "lecture"

Salon  

In a conversation on the Harris campaign’s plan to fight against corporate price gouging, Senator Elizabeth Warren had to set CNBC’s Joe Kernen back on track after he launched into an Econ-101-esque “lecture.” Kernen welcomed Warren by celebrating her speech at the Democratic National Convention, before blasting the Harris campaign’s economic proposal as “price controls, basically.” “If beef is too …

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PM Modi’s I-Day speech reiterates infeasible propositions
4 months, 3 weeks ago

PM Modi’s I-Day speech reiterates infeasible propositions

Hindustan Times  

In his speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 15, Prime Minister Narendra reiterated two contentious issues the Bharatiya Janata Party seems determined to push. Let’s examine the idea of simultaneous elections first because it is problematical in a more straightforward way. That cannot in any practical way be ensured, especially given that Modi’s party itself operates …

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RGNUL Introduces New Criminal Laws And Indic Knowledge System In Course Curriculum [10th July 2024]
5 months, 3 weeks ago

RGNUL Introduces New Criminal Laws And Indic Knowledge System In Course Curriculum [10th July 2024]

Live Law  

Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law has always been at the forefront of legal education in India, striving to provide a comprehensive and dynamic curriculum that meets the needs of contemporary legal education. RGNUL's recent innovations in the course curriculum integrating Indic Knowledge System and latest developments in law reflect the approach of the University towards providing a cutting-edge legal …

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Why is SC order on maintenance to divorced Muslim women a big deal? What did laws say earlier?
6 months ago

Why is SC order on maintenance to divorced Muslim women a big deal? What did laws say earlier?

Firstpost  

The Supreme Court bench of justices BV Nagarathna and Augustine George Masih has said that divorced Muslim women can now seek maintenance under Section 125 of the CrPC. The 1986 law was brought in by the then Rajiv Gandhi government to dilute the apex court’s landmark Shah Bano ruling The two-judge apex court bench of justices BV Nagarathna and Augustine …

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Your guide to Proposition 33: Effort to expand rent control
6 months ago

Your guide to Proposition 33: Effort to expand rent control

LA Times  

Both sides have accused each other of misleading advertising. In it, the speaker — identified as a renter and single mom — says that “33 repeals a hundred affordable housing laws, including the nation’s strongest rent control law” — a reference to the state rent cap law. Instead, the measure only removes prohibitions that currently bar municipalities from expanding rent …

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Texas abortion law creates ‘nightmare’ situation for woman experiencing miscarriage
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Texas abortion law creates ‘nightmare’ situation for woman experiencing miscarriage

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Restrictive and vague abortion …

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Labor laws largely exclude nannies. Some are banding together to protect themselves
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Labor laws largely exclude nannies. Some are banding together to protect themselves

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Domestic workers like those in Hidalgo's class are excluded …

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South Africa: 30 years after apartheid, what has changed?
8 months, 2 weeks ago

South Africa: 30 years after apartheid, what has changed?

Al Jazeera  

Big socio-political gains have followed apartheid but the legacy of racism and segregation is still starkly visible. From the late 1950s, some 3.5 million Black South Africans were forced to relocate from urban areas, and some 70 percent of the population was squeezed into 13 percent of the country’s most unproductive land. “It was because there was an internal criticism …

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The Civil War raged and fortune-seekers hunted for gold. This era produced Arizona’s abortion ban
8 months, 3 weeks ago

The Civil War raged and fortune-seekers hunted for gold. This era produced Arizona’s abortion ban

Associated Press  

As Union and Confederate armies clashed in a bloody fourth year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln tasked one man to create the legal code for Arizona, almost 50 years before the territory became a state. Arizona’s 1864 code elaborately describes restrictions on duels, ruling any person involved in the fighting of a duel would be imprisoned for one …

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Delaware’s early voting and permanent absentee laws are unconstitutional, a judge says
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Delaware’s early voting and permanent absentee laws are unconstitutional, a judge says

Associated Press  

— Laws allowing early voting and permanent absentee status violate Delaware’s constitution and are invalid, a judge ruled in a lawsuit brought by a state elections inspector and a Republican lawmaker. Friday’s ruling follows a 2022 state Supreme Court decision that laws allowing universal voting by mail and Election Day registration were unconstitutional. State attorneys argued that the General Assembly …

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Hong Kong begins work on its own National Security Law, years after a similar law crushed dissent
11 months, 1 week ago

Hong Kong begins work on its own National Security Law, years after a similar law crushed dissent

The Hindu  

Hong Kong began public consultation on a local National Security Law on January 30, more than three years after Beijing imposed a similar law that has all but wiped out dissent in the semi-autonomous city. Hong Kong’s mini-constitution, the Basic Law, calls for the city to enact a national security law, but it's been delayed for decades because of widespread …

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Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus convicted in Bangladesh labour law case
1 year ago

Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus convicted in Bangladesh labour law case

The Hindu  

Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus was convicted on January 1, 2024 of violating Bangladesh’s labour laws in a case decried by his supporters as politically motivated. A labour court in the capital Dhaka convicted and sentenced them to “six months’ simple imprisonment”, lead prosecutor Khurshid Alam Khan told AFP, adding that all four were immediately granted bail pending appeals. In …

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A tax increase, LGBTQ+ youth protections and more sick leave highlight California's new laws in 2024
1 year ago

A tax increase, LGBTQ+ youth protections and more sick leave highlight California's new laws in 2024

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. California lawmakers thought it wasn't …

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Parliament passes 3 criminal law reform bills, PM Modi says 'watershed moment'
1 year ago

Parliament passes 3 criminal law reform bills, PM Modi says 'watershed moment'

India Today  

The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed three criminal bills — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, and Bharatiya Saksha Bill — in the absence of Opposition MPs from the Parliament. The new bills were aimed at revamping the colonial-era criminal laws, with a focus on enhancing penalties for crimes such as terrorism, lynching, and offenses jeopardising national security. Reacting …

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Far-right sheriffs gather to hear how they can fight the federal government: report
1 year, 3 months ago

Far-right sheriffs gather to hear how they can fight the federal government: report

Raw Story  

A meeting of county sheriffs, some of whom came from as far away as Pennsylvania, was held in North Carolina to hear why the law enforcement agents should refuse to follow the federal government, reported local news site The Assembly. Mack's group believes that the county sheriffs are “the last line of defense standing between the overreaching government and your …

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Decoding the Nyaya Sanhita Bill
1 year, 4 months ago

Decoding the Nyaya Sanhita Bill

The Hindu  

The government, by introducing in the Lok Sabha three penal Bills which is says “aim to decolonise the Indian justice system,” has rightly exercised its prerogative. Substantive laws govern how people behave; they define criminal offences and specify punishment, whereas procedural laws are aimed at enforcement agencies that are to provide safeguards and due process even to the “worst” offenders. …

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New Bills and a principled course for criminal law reforms
1 year, 4 months ago

New Bills and a principled course for criminal law reforms

The Hindu  

The recent introduction of three Bills — the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita to replace the Indian Penal Code; the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita to replace the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Bharatiya Sakshya Bill to replace the Indian Evidence Act — transforming criminal laws has ignited a spectrum of reactions, underscoring pivotal facets related to criminal law reforms. In his …

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More states expect schools to keep trans girls off girls teams as K-12 classes resume
1 year, 4 months ago

More states expect schools to keep trans girls off girls teams as K-12 classes resume

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — As children across the U.S. head back to classes and practices for fall sports, four more states are expecting their K-12 schools to keep transgender girls off their girls teams. “Everyone is going through that process.” She added: “For trans kids, it’s never been a walk in the park, but now they have this law to contend …

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