The Supreme Court has ruled decisively to stop the Union government from ex post facto legalising projects that did not get prior environmental clearance, using a set of regulations tailor-made to ...
The Supreme Court recently and unanimously held in Ellingburg v. United States[1] that restitution imposed under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996 (MVRA) qualifies as “criminal punishment” ...
The Supreme Court’s recall of its May 2025 Vanashakti judgment, which barred ex post facto environmental clearances (EC) — a mechanism to regularise violations “in exceptional circumstances” — weakens ...