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A fight over public records in Puerto Rico hinges on financial board’s claim of sovereign immunity

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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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Puerto Rico: Lessons For Manufacturers And Dealers In Federal Court's Denial Of Request For Injunction Under Dealership Statute - Foley & Lardner

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District Court for the District of Puerto Rico has recently ruled on a case dealing with Puerto Rico's Dealer's Contracts Act, also known as Law 75.

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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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High Court Rejects Double Jeopardy Claim in Tribal Justice

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Gorsuch drew a comparison between the federally funded and administered CFR courts and the courts of Puerto Rico. “If Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the dissent. Gorsuch, who spent more than 10 years as a judge on the Tenth Circuit, has the most significant background in tribal affairs currently on the Supreme Court.

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Jamaican green-card holder asks court to overrule precedent on “crimes involving moral turpitude”

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Issues : (1) Whether courts can defer to the construction of a statute by the Department of Veterans Affairs without first considering whether the statute permits a pro-veteran construction pursuant to the pro-veteran canon; and (2) whether Chevron U.S.A. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v.

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SCOTUS Kicks Off February Session With Four Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. 223, 228 (1989), a statute does not abrogate sovereign immunity unless Congress’s intent to abrogate is “unmistakably clear” in the statutory text. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc.: Under Dellmuth v. Muth , 491 U.S.

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Recent U.S. Developments Concerning the Hague Judgments Convention and COCA

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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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