After a brief hiatus, the Re-upped Round Up series is back! And we have you, the vocally active reader, to thank for it. Keep sending in those suggestions..After a brief hiatus, the Re-upped Round Up series is back! And we have you, the vocally active reader, to thank for it. Keep sending in those suggestions. .President Patil sets new record on expenditure for foreign trips .A series of RTI applications has revealed that Rs.205 crore has been spent by President Patil on overseas trips. Since assuming office in 2007, the country’s first woman president has covered 22 countries across four continents. Read the full report on First Post.Maharashtra legislates to provide women with equal rights in husband’s property. .The Maharashtra government has recently drafted the Matrimonial Property (Rights of Women upon Marriage) Bill which, inter alia, seeks to give women rights of an equal partner in husband’s property. Read the full report in the Business Line.Karnataka HC asks Centre to explain the IB’s lack of constitutional or statutory authority .Responding to a PIL filed by one RN Kulkarni, the Karnataka HC has asked the Centre to explain the lack of a constitutional and/or statutory backing beind the establishment of the Intelligence Bureau. Read the full report in the Times of India.NY court dismisses law suit filed by law grads against NY Law School.The New York Supreme Court recently dismissed the class action suit filed by 9 law graduates from the New York Law School. The plaintiffs had claimed that their alma mater had misled them about their “post graduate employment prospects. Dismissing the suit, which had sought $225 million in damages, the court held that this was essentially a case of caveat emptor. Read the full article in the NY Times.[Also see Above the Law’s column on why you should know better than to go to law school 🙂 ]
After a brief hiatus, the Re-upped Round Up series is back! And we have you, the vocally active reader, to thank for it. Keep sending in those suggestions..After a brief hiatus, the Re-upped Round Up series is back! And we have you, the vocally active reader, to thank for it. Keep sending in those suggestions. .President Patil sets new record on expenditure for foreign trips .A series of RTI applications has revealed that Rs.205 crore has been spent by President Patil on overseas trips. Since assuming office in 2007, the country’s first woman president has covered 22 countries across four continents. Read the full report on First Post.Maharashtra legislates to provide women with equal rights in husband’s property. .The Maharashtra government has recently drafted the Matrimonial Property (Rights of Women upon Marriage) Bill which, inter alia, seeks to give women rights of an equal partner in husband’s property. Read the full report in the Business Line.Karnataka HC asks Centre to explain the IB’s lack of constitutional or statutory authority .Responding to a PIL filed by one RN Kulkarni, the Karnataka HC has asked the Centre to explain the lack of a constitutional and/or statutory backing beind the establishment of the Intelligence Bureau. Read the full report in the Times of India.NY court dismisses law suit filed by law grads against NY Law School.The New York Supreme Court recently dismissed the class action suit filed by 9 law graduates from the New York Law School. The plaintiffs had claimed that their alma mater had misled them about their “post graduate employment prospects. Dismissing the suit, which had sought $225 million in damages, the court held that this was essentially a case of caveat emptor. Read the full article in the NY Times.[Also see Above the Law’s column on why you should know better than to go to law school 🙂 ]
