Court : Supreme Court of India
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Tag this Judgment!Court : US Supreme Court
wisconsin v. illinois - 449 u.s. 48 (1980) u.s. supreme court wisconsin v. illinois, 449 u.s. 48 (1980) wisconsin v. illinois no. 1 orig. decree april 21, 1930 decree enlarged may 22, 1933 decree entered june 12, 1967 decree amended december 1, 1980 * 449 u.s. 48 on bill in equity decree amended. decree reported: 281 u. s. 281 u.s. 696; decree enlarged: 289 u. s. 289 u.s. 395; decree entered: 388 u. s. 388 u.s. 426. ordered: a. paragraph 3 of the decree entered by the court herein on june 12, 1967, is amended to read as follows: 3. for the purpose of determining whether the total amount of water diverted from lake michigan by the state of illinois and its municipalities, political subdivisions, agencies and instrumentalities is not in excess of the maximum amount permitted by this decree, the amounts of domestic pumpage from the lake by the state and its municipalities, political subdivisions, agencies and instrumentalities the sewage and sewage effluent derived from which reaches the illinois waterway, either above or below lockport, shall be added to the amount of direct diversion into the canal from the lake and storm runoff reaching the canal from the lake michigan watershed computed as provided in paragraph 2 of this decree. the annual accounting period shall consist of twelve months terminating on the last day of september. a period of forty (40) years, consisting of the current annual accounting period and the previous thirty-nine (39) such periods (all after the .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Gujarat
Reported in : (1981)22GLR712
b.j. divan, c.j.1. in this case the petitioners challenge the validity of a notification issued by the government of gujarat under section 7 of the commissions of inquiry act, 1952 (herein-after refened to as the act), discontinuing the commission which the state government had appointed on september 9, 1979 under section 3 of the act.2. it may be pointed out that the notification under section 7 was issued on march 17, 1981 but the petition was filed on the same day earlier on 17th march 1981. the petition was filed on the basis that the government was about to issue the said notification under section 7 and in the petition as originally framed, the prayer was to issue a writ of mandamus or a writ in the nature of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, direction or order permanently restraining the respondents, their agents and servants from winding up or obstructing or interfering with the proceedings of the commission. prayer (b) was to quash and declaretde notification or order, if issued, regarding winding up of the commission. prayer (c) was for interim relief pending admission. prayer (cc) and prayers (ccc) and (cccc) were all for interim relief. prayer (e) is the usual prayer seeking other and further reliefs as the nature of the case may require.3. the first petitioner is the consumer education & research centre (hereinafter referred for brevity sake as c.e.r.c.). it is a public trust registered under the bombay public trusts act, 1950. the second petitioner is the .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Customs Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal CESTAT Delhi
Reported in : (1992)(38)LC457Tri(Delhi)
1. the question for decision in this appeal originally filed as revision application to the government of india is whether appellants' should be granted the benefit of notification no. 211/1976 and granted refund of duty paid by them.2. the appellants by bill of entry no. cash-647 dt. 7.2.1980 imported hydrology equipment by air from london. at the time of import...claimed duty free import, claiming benefit of notification no. 211/76-cus. it appears that at that time the appellants were not possessed of necessary papers like nmi & de certificates and they paid duty under protest. 2a. later, they had applied to the assistant collector of customs for refund of duty, who by his order dated 12.8.1980 rejected the appellants' claim as unsubstantiated as the appellants did not produce the documents called for. in appeal, the appellate collector of customs, bombay by his order dated 20.11.1980 rejected the appellants claim on the ground that de certificate is not produced and the nmi certificate produced showed that the application for the same was made on 21.1.1980 when the goods had been shipped on 10.1.1980, hence this appeal.3. the appellants at this stage have produced duty exemption certificate in terms of the notification. they have also produced nmi certificate from the directorate general of technical development, new delhi.4. at the hearing of the appeal, sh. u.v. purandware, research officer representing the appellants explained the circumstances under which application .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Andhra Pradesh
Reported in : (1990)IILLJ577AP
order1. the questions that arise in this batch of writ petitions are whether m/s. national remote sensing agency, hereinafter described as 'nrsa' is an industry within the meaning of s. 2(j) of the industrial disputes act and whether the reference made by the state government can be said to be valid in view of the provisions of s. 2(a)(i) and (ii) of the said act. the questions also arises whether in the event of 'nrsa' being held to be an 'industry' relief can be granted to the petitioners under s. 25(f) of the said act without deciding whether the reference by the state government through labour court before the industrial tribunal was valid. sub. cl(bb) of s. 2(oo) also falls for consideration. each of the four writ petitions has been preferred against the awards of the labour court holding against the petitioner on two preliminary points. the first one related to the question whether 'nrsa' was an 'industry' and the second one was whether the state government which made the reference was competent to make the reference. the labour court held on the first question that 'nrsa' was not an industry and on the second question it was not competent for the state government to make the reference and that it was only the central government which should have made the reference. in view of those findings, the court also held that the third point whether the termination of the petitioners amounting to retrenchment did not survive and that therefore no relief can be granted under the .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Karnataka
Reported in : AIR1990Kant39; ILR1989KAR3253; 1989(2)KarLJ438
order1. invalidation of communication no. ex. mpec : hngg: 89 dated may 12, 1989, of the bangalore university ('the university') issued to the principal of the b.m.s. college of engineering, bangalore ('the college'), by which the benefit of performance of 28 examinees in all their papers (theory and practical) of the iv year b.f. examination held by the university in february/ march, 1989 has been denied, is sought in these writ petitions.2. material facts and circumstances leading up to the communication, invalidation of which is sought, are :28. examinees named in the communication along with 10 other examinees were answering the hydrology and irrigation paper of three hours duration in room no. 101 of the college from 2-00 p.m., on march 13, 1989, under a sealing arrangement, which was as follows : entrancee83ba008e83ra081018401088e82ba001186089082962901830639235386893374310610340451081047652111105815711411091 (absent)58111125the university's examination vigilance flying squad ('the squad'), which made a surprise check of the said room at about 3.30 p.m., gave to university's registrar (evaluation) a report of its check by means of a letter dated march 13, 1989, the terms of which, omitting its formal parts, read :'sir, sub:-- large scale malpractice in room no. 1, rms (d) college of engineering. rcf: (a) c.4.04 hydrology and irrigation engineering iv year 8.e. (civil) exam. march, 1989 time 2-5 p.m. this is to inform you that, when the squad team entered room no. 1 of .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Karnataka
Reported in : ILR1990KAR390; 1990(3)KarLJ520
orderk.a. swami, j. 1. in this petition under articles 226 and 227 of the constitution the petitioner has sought for issuing a direction in the nature of mandamus to the respondents to stop excavation of earth from the civic amenity area marked in red ink in annexure-a to the petition.2. respondents 1 and 3 have filed separate statement of objections. respondent no. 2 has made available the records of the case and also the sanctioned layout plan.3. the case of the petitioner is that on the installation of the sewerage treatment plant in the civic amenity site which is opposite to the house of the petitioner facing 60' road running north to south will result in health hazard to the residents of the locality. he has specifically contended that he made a representation in this regard and his representation was not heeded to. according to his case the installation of a sewerage treatment plant results in chemical and biological hazards affecting the health of the people at large. the chemical effect of the plaint is emission of sewer-gas. the atmosphere will be contaminated with hydrogen sulphide. it is also further contended by him that the other gases that will be emitted are carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, ammonia and occasionally hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen chloride, chlorine, phosgene, and all these being toxic to human beings living close to the proposed plant it will result in health hazard. it is also further contended that the installation of the sewerage treatment plant .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Karnataka
Reported in : ILR1989KAR3292; 1989(2)KarLJ475
rama jois, ag. c.j. 1. these appeals are presented by the bangalore university, against the order of the learned single judge quashing the orders passed against respondents-1 to 25 by which the performance of each of them in the february-march, 1989 b.e. degree examination was cancelled.2. the facts of the case in brief are these: or. 13-3-1989 students of b.m.s. engineering college, bangalore, were answering the question papers on the subject called hydrology and irrigation, in room no. 11 of the college. the examination commenced from 2.00 ' p.m. it appears, that when the examination was going on, a vigilance flying squad appointed by the university to check the menace of mass malpractice, at all the examinations of the university, made a surprise entry into the aforesaid examination room at about 3.30 p.m. the squad gave a report of the same date to the university registrar (evaluation), giving the names of the students who according to the squad were found indulging in examination malpractice. on the basis of the said report, charges were framed against each of the respondents, alleging that they had indulged in malpractice. the article of the charge also stated that the charge was supported by the document viz., report of the squad and each of the candidates was called upon to file statement of defence. thereafter, they were called upon to appear before the enquiry committee. the enquiry committee appears to have put some questions to each of the students. the questions .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Kerala
Reported in : AIR1990Ker321
orderchettur sankaran nair, j. 1. the conflict in these cases, is the conflict of yesterdays and a new day the conflict of the lifestyle of a lotuseyed leisurely day gone by and the exacting demands of today on material resources.2. the coral isles of lakshadweep, with their wind swept beaches of silver sandswashed by the soft ripples of the lagoons, lie scattered like pearls in the sapphire sea, to the west of the malabar coast. the palm fringed isles are endowed with scenic loveliness; but are not endowed with enough material resources. according to petitioners, ground water resources in these islands are limited. potable water is in short supply, and large scale withdrawals with electric or mechanical pumps can deplete the water sources, causing scopage or intrusion or saline water from the surrounding arabian sea. the administration has evolved a scheme to augment water supply, by digging wells and by drawing water from those existing wells to meet increasing needs. this, petitioners say, would upset the fresh water equilibrium leading to salinity in the available water resources. pursuant to a scheme recommended by the kerala public health engineering department, the administration is said to have taken this decision to extract ground water by using pumps. action of the administration amounts to an invasion of the rights under article 21, say petitioners and they seek to restrain the administration from implementing the scheme, by the issuance of appropriate writs or .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Kolkata
Reported in : AIR1993Cal215,97CWN142
order1. population growth and modern technological developments by themselves pose a great threat to the very existence of living and non-living organisms -- this is not confined to a particular region, but it has crossed trans-national frontiers. in 1972 the stockholm conference under the auspices of the united nations did deliberate upon the issues of protection of human environment. the habitat conference, vancouver, british columbia, 1976 and the world water conference at argentina in 1977 recorded a detailed discussion as regards the water pollution. it is not out of place to mention that water pollution along with the pollution in the air and the noise pollution are in a much higher degree in the metropolitan centres than in the rural sectors and as such population influx and technological developments can be ascribed to be the two basic factors for such environmental degradation. the national environmental engineering research institute has confirmed that levels of sulphur dioxide and other particulate matters in big cities haveexceeded the permissible limits as prescribed by the world health organisation (w.h.o.).2. while it is true that in a developing country there shall have to be developments, but that development shall have to be in closest possible harmony with the environment, as otherwise there would be development but no environment, which would result in total devastation, though, however, may not be felt in presenti but at some future point of time, but .....
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