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SCO.LR | 2025 | Volume 8 | Issue 2
In this Issue of SCO.LR, we bring you five important judgements from 4 August to 9 August 2025
11th Aug 2025
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Off the cuff
Casual remarks and comments are a part of the judicial discovery process. But propriety demands that judges be wary of tone and word choices
10th Aug 2025
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SC directs Union to frame pan-India guidelines for pedestrian safety
The Court warned that if the Union does not frame the necessary guidelines by 1 September, it would do so on its own
5th Aug 2025
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Supreme Court defends Himachal Pradesh’s ecology
A Division Bench expressed serious concern about the unregulated tourism industry in the hill state
5th Aug 2025
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SCO.LR | 2025 | Volume 8 | Issue 1
In this Issue of SCO.LR, we bring you five important judgements from 28 July to 2 August 2025
4th Aug 2025
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‘Operation successful, patient alive’
By stipulating a timeline for the Speaker to rule on defection petitions, the Court went beyond ‘Shiv Sena’. Could it have gone further?
3rd Aug 2025
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Supreme Court: Speaker does not enjoy constitutional immunity
The Court directed the Speaker of the Telangana Assembly to conclude disqualification proceedings against 10 MLAs within 3 months from today
31st Jul 2025
From the editor's desk
The differential levels of scrutiny the Court applies to studies on caste vis-a-vis economic backwardness may have deep and abiding implications for how affirmative action policies are crafted in the future, and is especially prescient in a situation where challenges to EWS reservations remain pending.
The Mandal and Sinho Commissions: A Study in Contrasts
Studies examining caste-based backwardness have a higher bar to pass than those studying backwardness within the ‘general category'.
SCO Team
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Can the Supreme Court Provide Reservations for Orphans?
With the petition seeking orphans to be identified as a backward class, are we moving away from a caste centric definition of backwardness.
8th Jun 2021
Analysis
Part I—The Mandal and Sinho Commissions: A Study in Contrasts
There is a marked difference in the methodology employed by the Mandal and Major Sinho Commissions in studying backwardness.
11th Jan 2022
Analysis
SC Offers Hope for OBC Reservations in Maharashtra Municipal Elections
The Maharashtra government was directed to submit data justifying its OBC reservation policy to the State Commission for Backward Castes.
20th Jan 2022
Analysis
Medical Students Relieved as SC Issues Order in PG NEET Case
DESK BRIEF: The SC issued an Order allowing the Union to immediately commence counselling for admissions to postgraduate medical programmes.
8th Jan 2022
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Do you have a right to the “truth serum” or narco analysis test in a criminal case?
8th Jan 2022