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Week brief · October 12 to 18, 2026

Legal news, week of October 12, 2026

In the week of October 12 to 18, 2026 the Legal desk recorded 8 news events on 3 days. Court decisions led with 3.

The most covered stories of the week

  1. Oct 13 UK ruling applies Chinese law to $5.1 billion seized Bitcoin dispute 3
  2. Oct 13 Taoiseach to chair new Cabinet committee covering AI regulation 2
  3. Oct 13 Anthropic asks D.C. Circuit to rehear Pentagon blacklisting appeal 2
  4. Oct 13 Bank of Russia adds Sberbank to its authorized digital currency register 2
  5. Oct 12 Karnataka HC strikes down SC/ST quota hike: 56% breaches 50% cap 1

Monday, October 12, 2026

  1. 01

    Karnataka HC strikes down SC/ST quota hike: 56% breaches 50% cap

    1 outlet · first: indiatoday.in Court decisions

    Machine summary Karnataka High Court held the 2022 SC/ST reservation Act unconstitutional to the extent that aggregate reservation reached 56%, exceeding the 50% ceiling under Indra Sawhney. The ruling enforces Articles 14, 15 and 16 and rejects demographic proportionality as justification for breaching the cap.

    1. The Karnataka High Court struck down Section 3 of the 2022 state reservation Act insofar as it pushed aggregate SC/ST/OBC reservation beyond the 50% ceiling, citing Articles 14 and 15.
    2. The struck-down law raised SC reservation from 15% to 17% and ST reservation from 3% to 7%, taking total reservation from 50% to 56%.
    3. Section 4 of the Act, which enhanced SC/ST reservation in state government services, was also held unconstitutional for violating Articles 14 and 16.
    4. The bench rejected Karnataka's argument that over 90% of the state's population belongs to SC/ST/OBC communities, calling acceptance destructive of equality.
    5. The 50% reservation ceiling was established by the Supreme Court in the 1992 Indra Sawhney v Union of India case.

    Reported by indiatoday.in and (in).

    • Indra Sawhney v Union of India
    • Karnataka High Court

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

4 events. The full rundown for October 13, 2026. The most covered:

  1. 18:30 UTC UK ruling applies Chinese law to $5.1 billion seized Bitcoin dispute 3
  2. 05:00 UTC Taoiseach to chair new Cabinet committee covering AI regulation 2
  3. 22:54 UTC Anthropic asks D.C. Circuit to rehear Pentagon blacklisting appeal 2

More events reported

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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

  1. · 2 outletsMedPage Today, WyoFile

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What kind of news was it?

  1. Court decisions 3
  2. Regulation 3

Sources: the outlets' reports linked on this page; counts and times from GetYourBrief's record of those reports (methodology).