Court Rules Government Puerto Rico 
JURIST
MAY 11, 2023
The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against a group of Puerto Rico journalists who were seeking documents from the island’s financial oversight board, saying that the board is protected from such information requests by sovereign immunity. The case, Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v.
JURIST
APRIL 22, 2022
In an 8-1 decision, the US Supreme Court Thursday ruled that Congress does not have to provide Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits to residents of Puerto Rico. The decision impacts the residents of Puerto Rico and other US territories who are applying for government benefits.
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JURIST
OCTOBER 18, 2022
American Samoa’s government filed a brief with the court arguing that the question of citizenship should be resolved through the regular political process. ” A Utah district court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, but the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that decision.
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 20, 2022
After Ramos , criminal defendant asks justices to preserve non-unanimous acquittals in Puerto Rico. Louisiana , the Supreme Court ruled that states could only convict defendants of serious offenses with a unanimous jury verdict. The Puerto Rico Supreme Court, however, disagreed, ruling that Ramos applied to both.
JURIST
OCTOBER 4, 2022
A lower Washington state court found that the strike was protected by the NLRA, which would mean the issue is properly heard before the National Labor Relations Board. The Teamsters are asking that the court affirm this lower court ruling, while Glacier seeks to enforce state tort law. United States.
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 15, 2023
Share Thursday’s decision in Financial Oversight & Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Ignoring the threshold questions on which the court had not granted review and applying a longstanding clear-statement rule, a near-unanimous court ruled in favor of Puerto Rico’s financial oversight board.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 14, 2022
Share An intriguingly divided court ruled Monday in Denezpi v. United States , upholding the federal court conviction of a defendant previously prosecuted and sentenced by a Court of Indian Offenses for charges stemming from the same incident. Wheeler and, more recently, Puerto Rico v.
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