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11 Nov 2011, 8:48 am
Editor’s Note: As a beneficiary of Delaware’s status as a mecca for corporate litigation, I’m in no position to be critical, but I think Professor Black’s statistical analysis of the declining market share of corporate litigation in Delaware provides a sobering reminder that Delaware’s prominence is not a natural or God-given right, such as self-defense, for example, and is subject to perennial challenges from the federal government and other states. [read post]
28 Oct 2020, 1:24 pm
It was acclaimed as a “Graffiti Mecca. [read post]
6 Feb 2011, 5:40 am
Even today, with Pittsburgh now a vibrant cultural Mecca, dominated by its universities and world famous medical centers, it still feels like a city living with a dual economy. [read post]
19 May 2017, 1:01 am
During a pilgrimage to Mecca in April 1964 Malcolm reported that seeing Muslims of all colors worshiping together caused him to reject the view that all whites were devils. [read post]
22 May 2015, 7:32 am
Similarly, the notion that the preservation of threatened artifacts in Mecca should play no part in Saudi proportionality calculations defies common sense. [read post]
2 Aug 2013, 9:07 am
Both cities were considered industrial strongholds and musical meccas in their day. [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 4:00 am
To recent revelations which show that the police concocted false cases against Muslims with respect to the Mecca Masjid, Malegaon and Samjauta Express blasts, his observations on the way the Indian criminal justice system operates strike a chord:The history of tackling dissidence and crime shows that torture and confession have been the twin engines of the legal system( Kannabiran, p.106)The forms of illegal action undertaken by the state, be it torture or forced confessions, had sinister… [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 4:00 am
A few days after Morsi was removed from office by the army, Nour and his parents were coming back from Umrah, a pilgrimage to the holy sites of Mecca and Medina. [read post]
12 Dec 2008, 3:42 pm
The urban Mecca! [read post]
13 Oct 2014, 9:01 pm
According to a recent article in the New York Times by Tamar Lewin, the United States has become – or is in the process of becoming – a mecca for foreign couples seeking the services of a surrogate to gestate a child for them. [read post]
8 Dec 2023, 1:42 am
Part II: Case Law One notable legal case involving the removal of murals and the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) is the case of 5Pointz in New York City.[3] In 2013, the owner of the 5Pointz building, a renowned graffiti art mecca in Queens, whitewashed and ultimately demolished the site to make way for luxury condominiums.[4] Graffiti artists who had created vibrant murals that showcased the culture of Queens through the years on the building sued under VARA, claiming that their rights to… [read post]
30 Nov 2011, 8:19 am
Based in Jeddah, a port city on the Red Sea about 50 miles from Mecca, the Abbars were among the largest merchants in Saudi Arabia, with annual revenue of about $500 million, according to the internal memo. [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 3:38 am
A seminal year in the conflict history was the Indian Army’s attack on Punjab, epicentered at Darbar Sahib (akin to Temple of David or Mecca) in June 1984. [read post]
26 Aug 2022, 10:00 am
” And for those of the are in the Muslim faith, you know about the journey from Mecca to Medina. [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 7:03 pm
Extra-curricular activities were hard to find: even in a football mecca like the South, for years, our school couldn’t support a proper team. [read post]
18 Sep 2016, 5:49 pm
One of the many intense experiences in Mumbai involved a trip to tour the Ali Haji Dargah, a shrine to the Muslim saint, Pir Haji Ali Shah Bukhari, who is reported to have died while traveling to Mecca on the Hajj. [read post]
27 Dec 2011, 5:22 am
For heaven’s sake, the whistleblower in Nevada recently committed suicide… or something… after blowing the whistle on Lender Processing Services as a robo-signing Mecca, if you will. [read post]
4 Jan 2022, 1:52 am
This was also the case in the decision to be discussed here, in which the applicant demands that her divorced husband pay for the costs of a pilgrimage to Mecca. [read post]
25 Jun 2020, 9:05 pm
” The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Hajj and Umrah, the government agency responsible for administering the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, announced that this year’s hajj would be restricted to a “very limited number of pilgrims” due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [read post]
22 Sep 2010, 9:05 am
Even legitimate cultural meccas aren’t insulated from economic turmoil. [read post]
