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.
The Crime Report
JANUARY 20, 2023
Department of Homeland Security, was charged last Friday by a federal grand jury in Puerto Rico for allegedly accepting money from someone in exchange for his assistance with immigration status and submitting a false statement on a loan application to the Federal Employee Retirement Thrift Savings Plan.
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JURIST
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Garland the court is again asked to examine administrative procedure, this time in the context of an immigration proceeding. Leon Santos-Zacaria is an immigrant who was removed from the US but later reentered the country. That holding was later upheld by the Board of Immigration Appeals, an administrative body.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
De George , the Supreme Court held that the term “crime involving moral turpitude” in federal immigration law is not unconstitutionally vague. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. In its 1951 decision in Jordan v. citizen the following year.
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.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 13, 2022
Yet his record is not unblemished: He distrusted immigrants from China and even voted to deny citizenship to their U.S.-born controlled Philippines, Puerto Rico, or Hawaii, he always believed that treating one group of people differently from others was a recurrence of the old cancer. born children. Last year, Peter S.
JURIST
JANUARY 29, 2022
Villanueva spent a large part of his childhood in Puerto Rico and is of part Puerto Rican heritage himself. ” Villanueva also promised to end the “pipeline to deportation” by cutting off the Sheriff’s Department’s cooperation and financial ties with federal immigration authorities. .”
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