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Top cases on the United States Supreme Court's docketThe U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing significant cases. These cases cover voting rights, presidential authority, immigration policies, and g...
Supreme Court: Husband can use secretly recorded calls of wife as evidence in divorce caseThe Supreme Court has permitted a husband to use his wife's secretly recorded phone calls as evidence in their divorce case, overturning a ...
US rights group sues over CIA interrogation tacticsThe lawsuit comes 10 months after the release of a damning Senate report that said the interrogation techniques had inflicted pain on al-Qa...
Uber rape case: Victim seeks Rs 100 crore as compensationThe woman allegedly raped by a driver for Uber is demanding a hefty payout from the taxi app which is valued at $40 billion (Rs 2.5 lakh cr...
US court dismisses 1984 rights violation case against CongressA three-judge panel of the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the case, dismissing charges made by rights group Sikhs for Justice.
US court to hear 1984 Sikh rights violation case on December 2Legal advisor to SFJ attorney Gurpatwant Singh Pannun said federal law grants "institutional standing" to human rights groups to seek "decl...
US court dismisses lawsuit against Congress President Sonia Gandhi in 1984 anti-Sikh riots caseThe plaintiffs had alleged that Sonia's conduct towards the perpetrators caused the victims, survivors and the Sikh community pain and suff...
Sikh group challenges dismissal of 1984 case against CongressThe case filed by SFJ was dismissed by Judge Robert Sweet of US District Court last month on the grounds that the group failed to show suff...
US court dismisses lawsuit against Congress in 1984 riots caseThe court granted a motion by the Congress party to dismiss the 1984-lawsuit filed by Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), ruling that the rights group...
US court to hear Congress' challenge to rights violation suitUS court will hear on March 19 a motion filed by India's ruling Congress party seeking dismissal of a human rights violation lawsuit agains...
Congress party seeks dismissal of rights violation suit in USThe party is seeking the dismissal of the complaint citing lack of subject-matter jurisdiction and failure to state a claim upon which reli...
Sikh Rights group, Sikh for Justice, to challenge dismissal of Parkash Singh Badal case in USSikh for Justice in its court case alleged that Badal violated the Torture Victim Protection Act and the Alien Tort Statute in Punjab.
US court dismisses human rights violation case against Parkash Singh BadalA US court has dismissed a case filed by a Sikh rights group accusing Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal of being involved in human rights viola...
- US court reserves order in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case
A US judge has reserved his orders on submissions by the Congress party that the anti-Sikh riots case filed against it by a rights group.