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District of Columbia Vs. Heller

Court : US Supreme Court

..... ed. of township high school dist. 205, will cty. , 391 u. s. 563 , 568 (1968) (government employee speech). in applying this kind of standard the court normally defers to a legislature s empirical judgment in matters where a legislature is likely to have greater expertise and greater institutional factfinding capacity. see turner broadcasting ..... important about blackstone is the instruction he provided on reading the sort of text before us today. blackstone described an interpretive approach that gave far more weight to preambles than the court allows. counseling that [t]he fairest and most rational method to interpret the will of the legislator, is by exploring ..... hatter. thus, these purposive qualifying phrases positively establish that to bear arms is not limited to military use.[ footnote 11 ] justice stevens places great weight on james madison s inclusion of a conscientious-objector clause in his original draft of the second amendment: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms .....

Kennedy Vs. Louisiana

Court : US Supreme Court

..... would constitute a continuing threat to society, jurek , supra , at 269-270, 274 276 (joint opinion of stewart, powell, and stevens, jj.). all of these standards have the potential to result in some inconsistency of application. as noted above, the resulting imprecision and the tension between evaluating the individual circumstances and consistency of treatment have ..... for a particular crime or class of offender, the legislators resolution of the issue can be interpreted as an expression of their own judgment, informed by whatever weight they attach to the values of their constituents. but when state legislators think that the enactment of a new death penalty law is likely to be futile, ..... a as we have said in other eighth amendment cases, objective evidence of contemporary values as it relates to punishment for child rape is entitled to great weight, but it does not end our inquiry. [t]he constitution contemplates that in the end our own judgment will be brought to bear on the question of .....

Ashoka Kumar Thakur Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and ors. (Obc Judgment)

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : 2008(56)BLJR1292; 2008(3)CTC97; [2008(3)JCR176(SC)]; JT2008(5)SC1; (2008)3MLJ1105(SC); 2008(5)SCALE1; (2008)6SCC1; 2008AIRSCW2899; 2008(3)Supreme331; 2008(2)LH(SC)1534

..... only for those reasons that serve what is known as 'compelling government interest'. 183. furthermore, for any affirmative action programme to survive the strict standard of judicial scrutiny, the courts want 'compelling evidence', that proves without any doubt that the affirmative action program is narrowly tailored and serves only the ..... bollinger 539 us 244 (2003), and parents involved in community schools v. seattle school district 127 sc 2738 (2007), that the court will apply the standard of strict scrutiny while reviewing legislation involving suspect classification; that and such legislation would be effected if two conditions are met, namely, (i) there is ..... government, in consultation with the appropriate authority, is satisfied that for reasons of financial, physical or academic limitations or in order to maintain the standards of education, the annual permitted strength in any branch of study or faculty of such institution cannot be increased for the academic session following the .....

Kuldip Nayar Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2006SC3127; JT2006(8)SC1; 2006(8)SCALE257; (2006)7SCC1

..... the best course would, therefore, be to insert an enabling provision in the constitution and leave it to the appropriate legislature to define the necessary standards later. whatever qualifications may be prescribed, one of them would certainly have to be the citizenship of india.to sum up, the legislative history ..... two million population. a slight advantage is, therefore, given to states with small population over the states with bigger population. this is called 'weighted proportional representation'. the system of proportional representation helps in giving due representation to minority groups. the representatives of a state in rajya sabha are elected ..... important. in this connection, we have to look into the minutes of the union constitution committee which recorded vide item 21 the manner of computing weight proportional representation based on population strength. the said minutes further show the recommendation that the upper house should include scientists, teachers etc. for which .....

League of United LatIn American Citizens Vs. Perry

Court : US Supreme Court

..... a significant majority of seats even if the statewide vote were equally distributed between republicans and democrats, plan 1374c constitutes a significant departure from the symmetry standard. by contrast, based on professor gaddie s evaluation, the balderas plan, though slightly biased in favor of republicans, provided markedly more equitable opportunities ..... about equality or inequality of opportunity were intended by congress to be judgments resting on comprehensive, not limited, canvassing of relevant facts ). suggesting that determinative weight should have been given this one factor contravenes our understanding of how 2 analysis proceeds, see gingles, 478 u. s. , at 45 (quoting statement ..... that guaranteed a candidate of their choice in the old district 24. see ante , at 37 40. the plurality accepts this conclusion by placing great weight on the fact that martin frost, the perennially successful congressional candidate in district 24, was white. see, e.g. , ante , at 38 39 .....

Rapanos Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... not regularly flooded by rivers, streams, and other hydrographic features more conventionally identifiable as waters. 474 u. s., at 131. applying this standard, we held that the corps decision to interpret waters of the united states as encompassing such wetlands was permissible. we recognized the practical difficulties ..... adjacent to them are likely, in the majority of cases, to perform important functions for an aquatic system incorporating navigable waters. the corps existing standard for tributaries, however, provides no such assurance. as noted earlier, the corps deems a water a tributary if it feeds into a traditional navigable ..... tributaries significantly affect the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of other covered waters more readily understood as navigable. post , at 25, 23. this standard certainly does not come from riverside bayview , which explicitly rejected such case-by-case determinations of ecological significance for the jurisdictional question whether a wetland .....

Sarbananda Sonowal Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2005SC2920; JT2005(6)SC79; (2005)5SCC665

..... imdt act which was enacted subsequently with the professed aim of making detection and deportation of the illegal migrants residing in assam easier has completely failed to meet even the standards prescribed in the foreigners act. that apart, even those provisions of the imdt act which afford some measure of protection to some genuine indian citizens against illegal migrants are not .....

Zee Telefilms Ltd. and anr. Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR2005SC2677; (2005)4CompLJ283(SC); JT2005(2)SC8; (2005)4SCC649

..... also noticed in the following terms:'in america, corporations or associations, private in character, but dealing with public rights, have already been held subject to constitutional standards. political parties, for example, even though they are not statutory organisations, and are in form private clubs, are within this category. so also are labour ..... nature and furthermore is allowed to perform regulatory and controlling functions and activities which were otherwise the job of the government.73. there cannot be same standard or yardstick for judging different bodies for the purpose of ascertaining as to whether it fulfills the requirements of law therefore or not.74. in pradeep ..... rules of natural justice.new zealand130. in finnigan v. new zealand rugby football union inc. [1985] 2 nzlr 159, the court noticed the factors which carry weight in entertaining judicial review, stating inter alia :'2. as the wrong body argument tails, the sole issue is whether the new zealand (179) union has .....

United States Vs. Booker

Court : US Supreme Court

..... not hard to determine. no headline describing the sentencing reform act of 1984 (act) would have read congress reaffirms judge-based sentencing rather than congress prescribes standardized sentences. justice breyer s opinion for the court repeatedly acknowledges that the primary objective of the act was to reduce sentencing disparity.[ footnote 2 ] inexplicably, ..... direction. that is to say, in a sentencing system modified by the court s constitutional requirement, plea bargaining would likely lead to sentences that gave greater weight, not to real conduct, but rather to the skill of counsel, the policies of the prosecutor, the caseload, and other factors that vary from place ..... diminish the consequences of the court s constitutional holding for the operation of the guidelines, but would make matters worse, leading to sentences that gave greater weight not to real conduct, but rather to counsel s skill, the prosecutor s policies, the caseload, and other factors that vary from place to place, .....

i.T.C. Ltd. Vs. Commissioner of Central Excise, New Delhi and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : 2004(96)ECC97; 2004(171)ELT433(SC); JT2004(7)SC409; 2004(7)SCALE540; (2004)7SCC591

..... printed price which was in any event required to be printed on each cigarette packet by virtue of the standards of weights and measures act, 1976 (referred to hereafter as the swm act) as well as the standard weights & measures (packaged commodity) rules 1977 (referred to as the packaged commodities rules). the appellant cleared cigarettes ..... :'the committee find that retail sale of the packet of cigarettes at a price higher than the declared printed price amounts to an infringement of the standards of weights and measures (packed commodities) rules, 1977 which is being enforced by the state governments and the union territories. the committee have been informed that ..... pac report it said:'the declaration of the maximum retail price on all commodities dealt with in packaged form including cigarettes is a requirement under the standards of weights & measures (packed commodities) rules 1977. this declared price has been taken as a basis for determining the slabs at which the excise duty would .....