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		<title>The Supreme Court: India&#8217;s Dark Knight</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much for the notion that all of constitutional law lies there in the Constitution waiting for a judge to read it fairly […] That is why the simplistic view of the Constitution devalues our aspirations, and attacks that our confidence, and diminishes us. A week back, Justice David H. Souter, who stepped down from [...]


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		<title>Moily mulls over activism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 10:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Union law minister Veerappa Moily on Monday asked the judiciary to restrain itself from admitting PILs and said &#8220;unrealistic judicial activism on the part of the judges is one of the main reasons for increased Naxalism in the country&#8221;. Moily said his concern was that when judges admit PILs and deliver judgments, &#8220;they should be [...]


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		<title>One year of SATL: 2009 in Review</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since beginning in early January this year, we&#8217;ve had a fantastic response to our posts, events and online discussions. 2009 has been a happening year for the world and India, and that holds for us too. The graduation fromThe Social Blog has been phenomenally well-received by our readers, and thanks to you, Something About The [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.somethingaboutthelaw.com/2009/11/17/theres-something-about-the-law/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: There&#8217;s Something About the Law&#8230;'>There&#8217;s Something About the Law&#8230;</a> <small>This is a court of law, young man, not a...</small></li>
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		<title>There&#8217;s Something About the Law&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice - Oliver Wendell Holmes When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other self-confessed perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks stand trial in the Southern District Court of New York  next year,  something about the law that&#8217;s unique to the justice system in such high-profile, [...]


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		<title>Like grease that smoothes daily decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slightly along the lines of an older post on why sharia is &#8220;bad for society&#8221;, here is a fantastic article I came across yesterday. It appeared in the Foreign Policy (FP) magazine in April 2009. Neil MacFarquhar writes about how the concept of fatwa, originally meant to signify any direction from a learned cleric interpreting [...]


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		<title>Binayak Sen&#8217;s release and my Concern</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 16:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aditya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was at Dantewada when there was a protest against the detention of Binayak Sen at Raipur. Four students from the Indian Institute of Sciences at Bangalore had attended it from where they decided to pay a visit to the Ashram (now demolished) at Dantewada. Very enthusiastic people I must say. From what I reckon [...]


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		<title>Voting for Venezuela.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A referendum is currently under way in Venezuela where voters are to decide on a proposal that would assist elected officials in seeking as many terms as they wish. Mooted by the Hugo Chavez-led Government, the proposal is set to be a watershed in the political landscape of this South American country. A similar referendum [...]


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