Court Rules Puerto Rico Statute 
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
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Under a series of cases the Supreme Court decided over 100 ago, known as the Insular Cases, people born in unincorporated U.S. People born in the other territories — Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. citizenship. Virgin Islands — do have birthright citizenship by act of Congress.)
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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.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Share Jose Luis Vaello-Madero is an American citizen who was born in Puerto Rico. But when he moved back to Puerto Rico to be closer to his family, Vaello-Madero lost his SSI benefits because, by law, Puerto Rico residents are excluded from the program. Two lower courts ruled in favor of Vaello-Madero.
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