JURIST

MARCH 8, 2024

The government of Haiti extended the state of emergency around Port-Au-Prince Thursday following the increasing escalation of gang violence and the displacement of thousands. The post Haiti government extends state of emergency following increasing gang violence appeared first on JURIST - News.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2022

After Ramos , criminal defendant asks justices to preserve non-unanimous acquittals in Puerto Rico. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , Nelson Daniel Centeno asks the justices now to decide whether Ramos prevents Puerto Rico from allowing non-unanimous acquittals. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

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JURIST

MARCH 13, 2024

If you look at the- what the Kenyan government said in its statement, it’s that they have to have a government with which to collaborate, which has been an important part of their understanding. Henry has been out of the country and stuck in Puerto Rico due to riots at Port-au-Prince’s international airport.

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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. ” Amata urged Congress to pass her bill that would assist US nationals like American Samoans who voluntarily seek citizenship.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Through oral arguments, the court will determine whether the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act’s general grant of jurisdiction to the US federal courts preempts a Puerto Rican governmental body’s sovereign authority. On January 11, the court will hear arguments in Financial Oversight Board v.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Speakers at the protest also called for solidarity for the international community, mentioning Hurricane Fiona’s drastic effects on Puerto Rico. Protestors say Marcos Jr. has “opposed” the ICC investigation rather “than holding the Duterte administration to account.” ” she asked.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Richardson — On September 24, 2021, the owner of a pharmacy in Puerto Rico pleaded guilty to participating in a felony conspiracy to convert government property and to commit health care fraud in connection with the illegal vaccination of minors between the ages of 7 to 11 with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Under the Fifth Amendment, “private property” cannot be “taken for public use” by the government “without just compensation.” Four years later, however, with the companies on their feet, the government changed its mind. They filed a series of lawsuits against the government. The court in Collins v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2025

Plaskett rose to demand recognition and to know why she was not allowed to vote: “I note that the names of representatives from American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia were not called, representing, collectively, 4 million Americans.

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Law 360

MARCH 20, 2025

A Puerto Rico federal judge is threatening sanctions for attorneys accusing soccer's international governing body, its Puerto Rican affiliate and a regional soccer association of trying to block local rivals, after the attorneys appeared to use artificial intelligence to help write briefs containing citations to nonexistent cases.

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Law 360

MARCH 21, 2025

Attorneys accusing soccer's international governing body, its Puerto Rican affiliate and a regional soccer association of trying to block local rivals told a Puerto Rico federal judge Friday that it was simply human oversight not the use of artificial intelligence that led to citation inaccuracies in recent filings.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Houck — Separate decisions by federal district courts in Texas and Puerto Rico in the past two months provide cautionary tales for every pharmacy and wholesale distributor dispensing or distributing controlled substances. The government asserted additional allegations that are outside our scope. By Larry K. Complaint ¶ 55.

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JURIST

MARCH 12, 2024

Henry has been stuck in Puerto Rico, being prevented from returning following a trip to Kenya to discuss the deployment of a multinational task force to stabilize Haiti. “I’m

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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.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The court will decide whether the US can proceed with criminal charges against a Turkish bank owned and controlled by the Turkish government in Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. CPI requested access to documents from Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight Board, a body vested with powers to supervise and modify the laws of Puerto Rico as a US territory.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2022

Gorsuch drew a comparison between the federally funded and administered CFR courts and the courts of Puerto Rico. “If Government, despite their origins. “In government to expand tribal sovereignty when it comes to prosecuting violent crimes, including broadening Native nations’ sentencing power, the Guardian reported.

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Diane Drain

JANUARY 1, 2021

They are also part of a larger government effort, which also includes assistance from the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) and the United States Trustee Program, to address Nationstar’s alleged unlawful mortgage loan servicing practices. It also requires Nationstar to pay a $1.5

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Law 360

JANUARY 12, 2024

A Puerto Rico federal judge Friday allowed soccer's governing body on the island to ban the head of a broadcaster from games, finding the media executive's emergency motion was insufficiently tied to an antitrust lawsuit accusing the federation of a corrupt scheme to monopolize the game and block rivals.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Mariana Islands, Oregon, Puerto Rico, and Washington must upload Annual EEO Public File Reports to station online public inspection files. Also, as we noted here , the FCC has given stations in Puerto Rico an extension until November 14 to upload their Quarterly Issues Programs lists because of the effect of Hurricane Fiona.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

That decision involved someone who defrauded the government of taxes, Daye argues, but courts are hopelessly divided over which illegal acts other than fraud – such as marijuana possession – are crimes involving moral turpitude. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v.

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The affiliates are concerned that the new rules might be read to apply to common forms of broadcast advertising and asked the FCC to clarify that these rules do not apply when a station sells time to advertisers in the normal course of business, no matter the duration of the advertisement.

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 28, 2022

As summer begins to wind down, just like the rest of the world, the FCC and other government agencies seem to pick up speed on long delayed actions. By that September 15 deadline, stations need to have assured themselves that no such program blocks have been provided by a foreign government or an agent of a foreign government.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

The fees are set to reimburse the government for the costs FCC operations, allocated by the percentage of FCC employees whose time is spent regulating a particular industry. This proceeding is important as the allocation of FCC employees determines the regulatory fees paid by each industry regulated by the FCC.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 22, 2015

As these NPRMs on reg fees make clear, this can be a very difficult process, as there will obviously be some employees who spend time on projects that cut across service lines – e.g. those in the International Bureau who negotiate with foreign governments may benefit broadcasters in some negotiations, and wireline or wireless companies in others.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 17, 2024

and Cuban governments could help to drive renewable energy development in the island nation, in a manner that benefits the Cuban people as well as the interests of people throughout the region. The report also explores how a bilateral dialogue between the U.S. policy also has a significant impact on Cuba’s energy sector.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday probed Congress’ authority to deny welfare benefits to Puerto Rico and other U.S. Residents of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Northern Mariana Islands can qualify for the program, but residents of Puerto Rico and the other territories are excluded. government.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

Wheeler and, more recently, Puerto Rico v. The court cited Wheeler ’s acknowledgement of the inherent power of tribes to pass laws and punish violations of those laws, stemming not from the federal government, but from “the tribal power of self-government.” Barrett acknowledged that past cases such as U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 20, 2024

As with many other aspects of the IRA, local governments will need to play an active role in ensuring that NCIF and CCIA funds are used to advance both their own climate goals and those of their residents and local community groups, particularly in disadvantaged communities.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2014

We recently wrote about the Media Bureau’s release of a proposed form to be completed by television broadcasters to obtain government reimbursement for any fees spent changing a television channel as a result of the repacking of the television spectrum due to the incentive auction. Comments on that form are due on October 29. .

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 6, 2024

The ULC is a non-partisan, non-profit, unincorporated association comprised of volunteer attorneys appointed by each state of the United States plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Its mission is to promote uniformity in the law among these jurisdictions to the extent desirable and practicable.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Governments with no realistic prospect of paying their debts often gamble for redemption, trying desperately to avoid default. Instead, the Maduro government gambled. The story of the PDVSA 2020 bonds is a common one in government debt markets. A government borrows money in dodgy ways or at a time of financial distress.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

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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Above The Law

AUGUST 11, 2022

Justice White really had a bone to pick back then huh. The post As Unjust As They Are, The Insular Cases Are Still ‘Good Law.’ ’ The ABA Is Pushing For SCOTUS To Change That. appeared first on Above the Law.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 8, 2024

These technologies are rapidly transforming procurement methods, the way business relationships are established, and governance systems, raising fundamental questions about applying PIL rules and protecting the rights and interests of the parties involved. It is also made up of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Share Wednesday’s argument in Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. The Financial Oversight and Management Board is an entity created under a 2016 federal statute ( PROMESA ) to take control of and restructure the finances of Puerto Rico. At bottom, the case is a public-records dispute.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On November 22, 2022, sixteen municipalities of Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Puerto Rico seeking to hold coal, oil, and gas companies liable for losses resulting from storms during the 2017 hurricane season and ongoing economic losses since that time. In Municipalities of Puerto Rico v.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 12, 2024

Just last December, Google reached a settlement in a multidistrict litigation involving all 50 states of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The settlement addressed issues very similar to those raised in this case, as explicitly outlined in the agreement.

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