Representative image (ANI) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Advocates on Record Association (SCAORA) on Monday condemned ED’s notice to senior advocate Arvind Datar for his legal opinion on allotment of employee stock option plan (ESOPs) granted to Rashmi Saluja, ex-chairperson of Religare Enterprises by Care Health Insurance, which is being probed by the agency.Datar had…
Indian-American civil rights attorney Anuj Dixit is running for the US House of Representatives in California’s 41st congressional district, aiming to contest Republican incumbent Ken Calvert. Dixit accused Congressman Calvert of not working for the middle-class and said he is contesting “to give them a voice”. Dixit, who was born to immigrant parents from India,…
The lawyer defending fallen Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein from rape and sexual assault charges called those testifying against his client “women with broken dreams” as he made his final pitch to jurors. A New York state appeals court had thrown out Weinstein’s 2020 convictions after irregularities in the presentation of witnesses at his original trial,…
Representative Image (Ai) Martha Karua, a lawyer and presidential candidate in Kenya, said Sunday she had been expelled from Tanzania, where she had been due to attend the trial of a prominent opposition figure facing treason charges.Karua, a former justice minister who has been vocal about “democratic backsliding” in East Africa, said her deportation was…
Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova was detained in February The Trump administration is seeking to deport a Harvard scientist to her home country of Russia, which she fled fearing political persecution, her lawyer told AFP Wednesday.Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in February upon returning to…
During a Tuesday hearing on the fate of two international students facing deportation, an appeals court judge asked a key question of the Trump administration. Does it believe the students’ speech is protected by the Constitution? A government lawyer, Drew Ensign, declined to discuss the issue. “Your honor, we have not taken a position on…
Sybil Shainwald, a lawyer who for nearly half a century represented women whose health had been irreparably and often catastrophically harmed by poorly tested drugs and medical devices, died on April 9 at her home in Manhattan. She was 96. Her daughter Laurie Shainwald Kleeger announced the death, which was not widely reported. Ms. Shainwald…
In a wide-ranging interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, President Donald Trump declined to affirm whether due process rights under the US Constitution apply equally to citizens and noncitizens, as his administration pushes aggressively to deport immigrants who are in the country illegally and other non-citizens, while also minimizing the likelihood of military action against…
President Trump on Thursday directed his sons to fire an outside ethics counsel for the family business because the lawyer also represents Harvard University, one of Mr. Trump’s targets in his crackdown on the nation’s top colleges. In a social media post, Mr. Trump said the lawyer, William A. Burck, should go because of his…
A controversial letter sent by the Donald Trump administration to Harvard University, demanding restrictions on campus activism and other changes, was sent by “mistake”, the New York Times reported, citing an official. The letter, dated April 11 and signed by three federal officials, including Sean Keveney, acting general counsel of the Department of Health and…