Introduction When the world started its global fight against the novel Coronavirus, Covid-19, immediate measures were the need of the hour. The spread of the virus was rampant. The first case of Covid-19 was reported in Wuhan, China during the month of December, 2019. Initially, China declared it to be a case of unusual pneumonia [...]
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested Gregory and Travis McMichael on Thursday for the February 23 murder of Ahmaud Arbery. The arrest came days after the surface of a video showing the shooting. The video depicts Arbery, a 25-year old black man, jogging when a white truck stops in front of him. The video shows [...]
The 112-year-old, Dallas-based luxury retailer Nieman Marcus Group filed for bankruptcy Thursday in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston. At the time of filing, Nieman Marcus said it has “funded-debt obligations of approximately $5.5 billion.” The filing stated that the need for bankruptcy comes in the “face of unprecedented [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) requested on Thursday that the Supreme Court block the release of grand jury documents associated with special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. In its application for a stay, the DOJ said that without the Supreme Court’s grant of a stay, “the government will [...]
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the US military can construct a base in Okinawa, Japan, despite environmental activists’ concerns over the base’s construction threatening the local dugong population. The activists filed suit under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). A panel of federal judges heard the case. The panel concluded that the base’s [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped its charges Thursday against Michael Flynn, the former National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump, for falsifying statements to the FBI. The DOJ dropped the case after determining that Flynn’s statements were not “‘material’ to the underlying investigation.” Flynn made the statements during the FBI’s investigation of Russian [...]
Content Warning – This piece discusses law and policy around child sexual assault. The Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act (POCSO) came into force on November 14, 2012, and was specifically formulated to deal with offences including child sexual abuse and child pornography. The Act through its 46 provisions increased the scope of reporting [...]
In 1907, Congress passed a law that punished US citizen women for marrying “foreigners.” In March of 1931, Congress rejected this discrimination. But in March of 2020, Congress reincarnated it by passing a law that punishes both US citizen men and women who are married to non-citizens. The March 2020 CARES Act was designed to help support American families [...]
Introduction The aim of “combination regulation” is to inquire whether a transaction can cause an adverse effect on competition, and to prevent or modify such anti-competitive combination before consummation of the transaction. The jurisdictional threshold of turnover and asset has been considered globally as an effective tool for merger regulation. However, the escape of a [...]
The novel coronavirus pandemic is not only causing tens of thousands of deaths worldwide, damaging economies and disrupting normal lifestyles of people, but it is also posing several legal challenges. One such challenge is the right to privacy vs. the right to public health. Aggressive and intrusive contact-tracing mechanisms of governments worldwide during this acute [...]
