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Delhi court starts hearing MJ Akbar's defamation case against Priya Ramani.
Sr. Adv. Rebecca John begins submissions for Ramani.
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Continues showing case documents.
John: Only the first four paras of the article referred to Akbar, rest of the article was about male bosses in general.
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John: This is self-evident. The portions of the article in inverted commas are from articles written in America by American authors, which is why they are in inverted commas. They've nothing to do with Akbar.
Judge: Has he made complaints against others also?
John: No, he has only picked out Ramani, and he admits he was aware of others also.
His wife, on the other hand stated that, Pallavi's flaunting the relationship publicly threatened to destroy their family- which he admitted.
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Are the plaintiffs state legislatures?
https://t.co/KJGEvm8Owp
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EVERYTHING you could possibly get wrong in a complaint, they managed
Start with the plaintiffs. The ONLY claims in the lawsuit are that the Constitution gives state legislatures the right to set the manner of elections, which they have allegedly (we'll get to this insanity) failed to do.
There's oodles of caselaw saying "since that's a right of the state legislature, only state legislatures, as a body, can bring such a claim"
Are the plaintiffs state legislatures?
https://t.co/KJGEvm8Owp
OK, what about the Defendants? They've sued Defendants from, IIRC, five states (GA, PA, WI, MI, AZ) based on claims that the State Legislatures there didn't pass election rules that the plaintiffs insist the Constitution requires (I promise, we'll get there).
