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Donald Trump pardoned Stephen Buyer of Indiana, who served nearly two years in prison after conviction As his administration promotes what it calls a crackdown on fraud in states run by Democrats, Donald Trump once again used the pardon power to excuse financial crimes committed by a Republican, granting a pardon this week to Stephen Buyer, a former Republican congressman from Indiana who served …

Kaviya R, LLM (CBCS), School of Excellence in Law, The Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Chennai ABSTRACT The rise of cryptocurrency and the dark web has changed the methods of terrorist financing and creating new challenges to the regulatory and legislative framework that prevails. Cryptocurrency allows quick, seamless, and anonymous transactions, whereas dark web ensures safe and anonymou…

The justice department decision to launch a criminal investigation into Carroll is a troubling, dark turn Donald Trump is accused of raping E Jean Carroll, the magazine writer, in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store sometime in the mid-1990s. Trump denies this , as he denies all the sexual abuse allegations that have been made against him by more than two dozen women , but he was fo…

Pratham Srivastava, D.A.V. Degree College, Lucknow (Affiliated with the University of Lucknow) In the vibrant digital bazaar of contemporary India, where a 15-second reel can catapult a small- town creator to national stardom overnight, the traditional boundaries of intellectual property are being tested like never before. The Indian creator economy, projected to reach a staggering ₹10,750 crore …

Anjali Pal, Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun Amber Srivastava, Assistant Professor, Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun ABSTRACT The Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complicated condition of the developing brain which has an impact on communication, social skill and behaviours. The autism condition in India crosses the boundary of medical diagnosis and …

Dr. Gitu Singh, Xavier Law School, St. Xavier's University, Kolkata ABSTRACT Crime is a part of society, so are criminals. Finding an exact and all applicable reason for the cause of crime and criminal behavior has been and will remain a difficult task. Yet one may agree that society and social ecology plays a major role in determining the reasons behind crime and criminal behavior. Social factor…

Ankit Kohli & Amber Srivastava, Assistant Prof. ABSTRACT Social media has been a game-changer for communication, democratic participation and dissemination of information. Platforms like Meta Platforms, previously known as Facebook, X Corp. (formerly Twitter), and Google LLC have become the custodians of online visibility, with algorithmic governance. Issues surrounding moderation that are se…

Ananta Proshad Chakraborty ABSTRACT Developing countries have a very limited participation in the WTO Dispute Settlement System. Although legal equality exists, capacity asymmetries between developing countries continue to hamper participation, with smaller economies struggling while larger economies thrive. This unequal participation persists due to financial, legal, administrative, and informat…

Aminpalli Sai Sharath Nihar, India Institute of Legal Education and Research ABSTRACT This article traces the profound transformation of parliamentary privilege in Indian constitutional law by explaining the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions in ‘M.S.M. Sharma v. Sri Krishna Sinha (1959) and P.V. Narasimha Rao v. State (1998)’. For decades following the Sharma judgment, legislative privilege unde…

Nandini Panwar, BA. LL.B., Thakur Ramnarayan College of Law, Mumbai ABSTRACT This paper is an attempt to understand and analyse the Supreme Court's Constitution Bench decision in Gayatri Balasamy v. ISG Novasoft Technologies Limited, which has finally put to rest one of the most persistently contested questions in Indian arbitration law: can a court actually modify an arbitral award, or is it lim…

Akanksha Singh, LL.M., Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur, M.P. ABSTRACT The rapid proliferation of deepfake technology has emerged as one of the most formidable challenges confronting contemporary legal systems. Characterised by an unprecedented degree of realism, near-zero creation costs, and exponential scalability, deepfakes function not merely as a novel category of digital harm…

Sameer Suman Sinha & Dr Richa Singh ABSTRACT The intersection of patent law and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) represents one of the most significant yet underexplored domains in intellectual property jurisprudence. As patent litigation costs continue to increase and court backlogs stretch resolution time to several years, ADR mechanisms including arbitration, mediation, and expert dete…

Aditi G, BA LLB, O.P. Jindal Global Law School ABSTRACT: Hindustan Lever Limited v. SEBI1 was one of the earliest cases in India in regard to insider trading where the terms ‘insider’ and ‘unpublished price sensitive information’ was coined and clearly defined in the wake of the rising concerns around such activities. Earliest efforts towards prevention of insider trading were made though the SEB…

The principle underlying the release of the Mandelson papers is that officials are always ‘on the record’ – but our leaders must be able to speak their minds freely Did you know a Cabinet Office minister commiserated with Peter Mandelson on his being sacked as ambassador to Washington, saying that he was “so sorry” ? How could Darren Jones possibly sympathise with a friend who lost his job? Yet h…

States including California and New York are taking steps to file a lawsuit to block the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery.

From the Derivatives Practice Group: This week, the CFTC rescinded a policy stating that it will not accept settlement offers … The post Derivatives, Legislative and Regulatory Weekly Update (June 5, 2026) appeared first on Gibson Dunn .

A Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge dismissed murder charges Friday against ex-LAPD Officer Clifford Proctor in the 2015 shooting death of Brendon Glenn, an unarmed homeless man.

Federal judge rules policies unlawfully barred applicants from receiving decisions on asylum, green cards and more The Trump administration unlawfully barred applicants from 39 travel-ban countries from receiving decisions on asylum, work permits, green cards and citizenship applications, a US federal judge ruled on Friday. The decision came on the same day that the US Senate voted to pass legisl…

Omar is married to a British woman, has a British son and was given a single non-custodial sentence nine years ago. Nonetheless, the Home Office was determined to deport him – whatever the cost A year ago, Omar was living in the UK with his British wife and was determined to be a positive, consistent presence for his 10-year-old son, a British citizen from his first marriage. Omar is devoted to h…

Paul Quinn, 52, to serve 24 years for attack that led to one of worst miscarriages of justice in modern British history A man who evaded justice for nearly two decades has been jailed for 21 years for a “savage” rape for which Andrew Malkinson was wrongly imprisoned. Paul Quinn, 52, was found guilty of the 2003 attack in Salford after a fresh forensic analysis found traces of his DNA on the victi…