The push for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in India ... true equality requires dismantling inequities within Hindu personal law first. Reform is needed in areas like inheritance, guardianship ...

What is disparate impact? It’s the legal concept that certain practices can violate federal civil rights law because they affect certain demographics differently — even if no explicit or ...

They have now been awakened to the reality that most of these programs are unconstitutional or in conflict with civil-rights law. The decision may even challenge the internal practices of the ...

It is absurd. Disputes over civil issues cannot be turned into offences… There is a complete breakdown of rule of law in Uttar Pradesh. Converting a civil matter into a criminal case is not ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — First the nation’s top law firms. Then its premier universities. Now, President Donald Trump is leaning on the advocacy groups that underpin U.S. civil society. Trump said ...

(KABC) -- A Latino civil rights organization filed a motion Thursday to intervene in a lawsuit brought on by the city of Huntington Beach that challenges California's sanctuary law. The Mexican ...

The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), the American law that the GD claims to have “copied” into Georgian legislation, differs from its U.S. original in that it is aimed at cracking down on civil ...

US advocacy groups and small legal offices fear Big Law will retreat from civil rights cases after Donald Trump’s executive orders put pressure on firms to choose between ethics and profits.

Trump’s attacks on civil society have created a climate that is potentially chilling for the organizations in question — but they have had mixed results. Five of the major law firms and Trump reached ...