T he Karnataka state government has appealed the high court’s striking down of the NLSIU Bengaluru horizontal reservation of 25% to the Supreme Court of India, as first reported by LiveLaw today. LiveLaw had reported: The SLP filed by the government states that the judgment passed by the high court ...

T he Karnataka high court has stayed NLSIU Bangalore ‘s 25% domicile reservation in the interim, according to LiveLaw and Bar & Bench . NLSIU should prepare a new seat matrix without the reservation and the Karnataka government should not notify the NLSIU amendment act, the court held. However,...

The Delhi high court today declined to hear a petition challenging Karnataka’s NLSIU Bangalore reservation, argued by 2006 NLS graduate and Supreme Court advocate Shadan Farasat on behalf of Delhi-resident petitioner and Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) aspirant Shubham Kumar Jha, as first reported ...

F ormer and current NLU Delhi students have reportedly approached the Delhi high court against the 50% state reservation, which we had first reported in January . LiveLaw had just tweeted the news earlier today. NLU Delhi alumni & students have moved the Delhi HC, in a bid to challenge the domi...

Nalsar Hyderabad vice chancellor Prof Faizan Mustafa has been summoned to appear before the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) in Delhi on 4 June, according to a number of news reports.

In the heat of election season, the Congress Party has called for Nalsar Hyderabad to institute 85% local resident reservation quotas, accusing the national law school of a “Blatant & Deliberate Violation Of Law Of Land” (sic) and “Causing Gross Injustice towards Sons of Soil, i.e., LOCAL Students of Telangana in General and Backward Class Students in particular” (sic).

The NLSIU Bangalore Alumni Association has made a statement unequivocally condemning the move by the state government to impose a 50% local domicile reservation on NLSIU Bangalore.

The NLSIU Bangalore student bar association (SBA) has released a strong statement vowing to resist the Karnataka state’s new law introducing a 50% reservation for students from Karnataka.

Karnataka’s assembly has passed a bill, which is yet to be given the nod by the legislative council, which would reserve 50% of NLSIU Bangalore’s 80 undergraduate seats (and its 50 LLM seats and 50 masters of public policy seats) for students with a strong connection to Karnataka, reported The Economic Times:

The Haryana assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill to provide reservation to Jat and other communities. There was immediate opposition to the bill from other communities. The Haryana Backward Classes (Reservation in Services and Admission in Educational Institutions) Bill, 2016, was passed by...

A petition pending since 2000, Ashok Kumar Jain v UOI (civil writ petition 546/2000) against the 79th Constitution Amendment Act, 1999 which had effectively extended constitutional scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) reservations in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies until 2010 (and until 2020 after the 95th amendment), was revived by the Supreme Court’s five Judge constitution bench today at 2 pm in court No 2.

Nalsar Hyderabad has increased its batch size from 80 to 120 students from this year, after having been in violation of a Bar Council of India (BCI) rule on batch sizes for up to nine years.

NUJS Kolkata has introduced a 10-seat state domicile reservation for admissions, reported Bar & Bench . Vice chancellor Ishwara Bhat told Bar & Bench that the West Bengal government would provide NUJS with 3000 square metres of land to build a girl’s hostel, after which the academic counci...

Nalsar Hyderabad blamed central government policies for having to first collect fees from and then reimburse those to the law school’s scheduled category (SC/ST) scholarship students, in a response to critical media reports and pressure from the Student Federation of India (SFI) not to collect any f...

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Naik Naik & Co has succeeded in challenging the three states’ orders banning the film Aarakshan before the Supreme Court, following an earlier favourable order before the Bombay High Court . Naik Naik & Co partner Madhu Gadodia summarised the case before the Supreme Court: Prakash Jha Prod...

Naik Naik & Co represented the producers of the Amitabh Bachchan starrer Aarakshan (reservation) and successfully persuaded the Bombay High Court not to stay the release of the film, which has been attracting controversy for its purported anti-reservation message.