SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2023

Share The court turns to sovereign immunity on Wednesday when it hears argument in Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. The case involves the board Congress created in response to Puerto Rico’s dire financial distress in 2016. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo.

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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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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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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. On the one hand, they could seek recognition and enforcement under the federal statute. Virgin Islands.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2021

The Lacey Act and other federal wildlife statutes could be charged for such conduct. However, possession for roaming animals has been litigated. This was the issue in Woods-Leber v Hyatt Hotels of Puerto Rico (1997), Hyatt was found not to be strictly liable for an attack on its grounds by a rabid mongoose on a guest.

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JURIST

JANUARY 29, 2022

Villanueva spent a large part of his childhood in Puerto Rico and is of part Puerto Rican heritage himself. Specifically, he served in the US Air Force and California Army National Guard between 1983 and 1985 and remained in the military until 1992. ” However, the other reinstated individuals appear to remain employed.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 21, 2021

And in the process, petitioners seek to determine once and for all the maximum number of times a litigant can use em-dashes in their questions presented : seven. The developer now urges the court to revisit its open-ended test for assessing regulatory takings under Penn Central Transportation Co. New York City and Lucas v. 15 conferences).

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