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Justices side with Puerto Rico’s financial oversight board in public records dispute

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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.

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International tech litigation reaches the next level: collective actions against TikTok and Google

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In an earlier blogpost we reported that the Amsterdam District Court ruled that it had international jurisdiction under the Brussels I-bis Regulation and the GDPR. The settlement addressed issues very similar to those raised in this case, as explicitly outlined in the agreement.

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Excluding Puerto Rico from safety-net benefits doesn’t violate Constitution, court says

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Share Residents of Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories do not have a constitutional right to receive certain federal benefits that the government provides to people who live in the 50 states, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in an 8-1 decision. The case, United States v. Jose Luis Vaello-Madero, a U.S.

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Retail Woes: A Running List of Fashion & Retail Bankruptcies

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and Puerto Rico. Chairman and CEO Glenn Rupp insisted that the Converse brand and its sales were strong, but the company was simply too overwhelmed by debt dating back to its 1995 acquisition of ApexOne and subsequent litigation. Payless filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in St. Paul Jones said in a statement.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2021

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Share The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court. Two trailblazing civil-rights litigators. As we did last year , SCOTUSblog looks back and remembers some of the people who died this year and whose lives and work brought them to the highest court in the nation. Huron’s impact extended beyond his work as a litigator.

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