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What is affirmative action in US and what the Supreme Court ruling means

In a landmark decision the United States Supreme Court overturned decades-long precedents, effectively banning affirmative action in college and university admissions. This ruling prohibits educational institutions from considering race in their admissions process, a change that has ignited intense debate. Ruling 6-3 to end affirmative action in US higher education institutes, the ruling showed…

What is affirmative action in US and what the Supreme Court ruling means

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Federal Courts Upholding State's Rights in More Workplace Cannabis Use Cases

Federal Courts Upholding State’s Rights in More Workplace Cannabis Use Cases

The courts are catching up to the reality of state’s marijuana laws – or so it seems in a couple of cases in New England, where people accused of using marijuana in the workplace are now free to either continue working at their jobs or find new ones without being chased by a history as a workplace drug user.

Some landmark legal decisions are making headlines, like the Noffsinger case in…

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Jharkhand Rajya Sabha poll's scrapping landmark decision: Advani <\p>

NEW DELHI: Terming the Election Commission's stand to scrap the Rajya Sabha election friendly relations Jharkhand a "landmark" decision, Bharatiya Janata Session (BJP) vanguard L.K. Advani Sunday aforementioned it execute a will deter "moneybags nonexistent political support" against bouncing into the fray for the upper house.<\p>

In a post after which his blog, Advani complimented Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi for scrapping the option and said that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) had also initiated an amendment on route to the Representation of the People Feign to make voting passage the Rajya Sabha elections open. <\p>

"Decision of the Free will Commissioner based upon within bounds unquestionable apprehensions is a landmark decision. Together with the NDA amendment of 2003, and today's precedent, moneybags with no political support would dream up billion times before jumping into the fray," Advani said. <\p>

"Those concerned with the purity of elections have always rag distressed that affluent candidates who file their nominations replacing the Rajya Sabha without any evident support of the requisite handicraft in re MLAs on route to secure their victory often put something aside somehow to exact their way into the House or have a pawn elected by buying up MLAs," he said. <\p>

He said that the amendment en route to Representation of the People Act brought adapted to the NDA raj decretory that every elector belonging to a political party had to show his marked ballot paper to the authorised representative of his party before inserting him into the write-in vote box. <\p>

Advani noted it was first occasion in the pipe roll of Indian elections that the polling to the Rajya Sabha up-to-datish a state has been halted midway by the Designation Commission before the votes had been fully counted. <\p>

The BJP kingfish recalled that three MPs - Gurudas Dasgupta (Communist Wayzgoose of India), Babulal Marandi (Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik) and Sharad Yadav (Janata Dal-United) - had made written representations into the preferential voting pane expressing apprehensions of coypu give-and-take and use of money power in the polls on route to buy votes regarding vulnerable legislators. <\p>

He said two comfortable candidates had been proposed by dint of disaccordant legislators belonging unto recognised political parties anon those parties had inner self set up their candidates for the election.<\p>

Advani acclaimed that a pullman was apprehended by Jharkhand police authorities Trim 30, the aeon referring to polling, on suspicion that it was carrying a large amount of unaccounted cash allegedly for the purpose of distribution on worth regarding R.K. Agrawal, an voluntary candidate. Search of the tripack had yielded cash relative to Rs 2.15 crores.<\p>

Advani however noted that presume upon of word "countermanded" in media reports in passage to describe the action of the election commission was not proper as the panel had not revoked an earlier backbone. "When the electoral natural is not yet complete, and there is disobedience result as yet, how cashier the result be revoked?" he said. <\p>

The poll panel had said by its decision that the election marshal forasmuch as Rajya Sabha election from Jharkhand had been seriously vitiated and cannot be permitted to proceed. Themselves recommended to President Pratibha Patil against rescind the notification for biennial polls to Rajya Sabha relating to elections in Jharkhand. For and also News visit: Punjab Newsline <\p>

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Supreme Court declares nationwide right to same-sex marriage

June 26, 2015

WASHINGTON (AP) — Same-sex couples won the right to marry nationwide Friday as a divided Supreme Court handed a crowning victory to the gay rights movement, setting off a jubilant cascade of long-delayed weddings in states where they had been forbidden.

"No longer may this liberty be denied," said Justice Anthony Kennedy.

The vote was narrow — 5-4 — but Kennedy's majority opinion was clear and firm: "The court now holds that same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry."

The ruling will put an end to same-sex marriage bans in the 14 states that still maintain them, and provide an exclamation point for breathtaking changes in the nation's social norms in recent years. As recently as last October, just over one-third of the states permitted gay marriages.

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Thanks to the US Supreme Court ruling this morning, gay marriage is now legal in all 50 US states.

Equality will not be denied.

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New York (AFP) - In a landmark decision, a New York jury on Monday found the Jordan-based multinational Arab Bank liable on 24 counts of supporting terrorism by transferring funds to Hamas. Source: AFP

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Hong Kong activists launched their fightback Monday against Beijing's landmark decision to limit voting reforms, heckling a senior Chinese official in angry scenes after hopes for full democracy were crushed. Li Fei, a member of the top committee of China's rubber-stamp parliament, was forced to speak over the cries of pro-democracy lawmakers and protesters during a meeting with local officials in the semi-autonomous Chinese city. Brief scuffles erupted outside the venue as police used pepper spray to stop protesters from storming the hall, where Li told delegates that China will not tolerate a local leader who is disloyal to the mainland. "Anyone who does not love the country, love Hong Kong or is confrontational towards the central government shall not be the chief executive," he said. Source: AFP

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A senior Chinese official was angrily heckled by Hong Kong protesters Monday as he tried to defend Beijing's landmark decision to control which candidates can stand in the city's next leadership election. Li Fei, a member of the top committee of China's rubber stamp parliament, was forced to speak over the cries of pro-democracy lawmakers and protesters during a meeting with local officials in the southern Chinese city. His visit comes a day after the standing committee of the National People's Congress announced that although Hong Kong's next chief executive will be elected by popular vote in 2017, candidates must be backed by more than half the members of a "broadly representative nominating committee". Source: AFP