| 25-6800 |
In Re Felix Verdejo-Sanchez |
|
2026-02-12 |
Pending |
appellate-procedure constitutional-error due-process jurisdictional-defect mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether a federal court of appeals may continue adjudicating the merits of a criminal appeal without first verifying, sua sponte, the existence of … |
| 25-6345 |
Felix Verdejo-Sanchez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce pro-se-representation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Can the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit deny the Petitioner his motion pro se requesting to invoke the supervisory power of the Court to verify… |
| 25-5036 |
Wilfredo Feliciano-Rodriguez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
constitutional-provisions federal-prosecution grand-jury interstate-commerce jurisdiction puerto-rico-statehood |
Can a federal court attempt a prosecution without verifying, as the first
step before any proceeding, jurisdiction?
Can the Respondent take away jur… |
| 24-6475 |
Charlene A. Greene-Rodriguez v. Puerto Rico Department of Education, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection tenure-rights |
Can the Judiciary of Puerto Rico deprive a U.S. citizen of due process by denying equal protection and issuing decisions without basing them on the U.… |
| 24-5971 |
Maritza Ortiz v. Supreme Court of Puerto Rico |
Puerto Rico |
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights ethics-rules first-amendment free-speech petitioning-redress strict-scrutiny |
Whether Puerto Rico's ethics rules, when applied to private speech while petitioning for redress, are subject to strict scrutiny under the First Amend… |
| 24A5 |
First Finance International Bank, Inc. v. Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions |
Puerto Rico |
2024-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
administrative-law equal-protection financial-regulation foreign-dormant-commerce-clause puerto-rico selective-enforcement |
Whether the Foreign Dormant Commerce Clause and Equal Protection Clause limit a state regulatory agency's ability to selectively enforce financial reg… |
| 23-7384 |
Javier Mandry, aka Javier E. Mandry-Mercado v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment implied-contract plebiscite pro-se-litigants puerto-rico-statehood statehood tucker-act |
Whether participation in the Congress—authorized 2017 and 2020 plebiscite for Puerto Ricans, on statehood elections, constitutes an implied in fact co… |
| 23-674 |
Rafael Hernández-Montañez v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico |
First Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
bankruptcy civil-procedure financial-crisis financial-oversight-and-management-board judicial-jurisdiction municipal-bankruptcy promesa promesa-act puerto-rico puerto-rico-debt territorial-instrumentality territorial-oversight |
Whether an action to enforce the provisions of Titles I and II of PROMESA may be brought before the judge appointed by the Chief Justice to preside on… |
| 22-847 |
Virginia Silva-Navarro v. Roosevelt REO PR Corporation |
First Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process executive-power federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts foreign-entity-litigation jurisdiction precedent standing supreme-court-precedent tax-collection |
Are lower courts in the federal system to follow the case law of this Honorable Court? |
| 22-836 |
Hiram I. Perez Soto v. Maite D. Oronoz-Rodriguez, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
civil-rights declaratory-judgment disbarment due-process ethical-complaints injunction judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct section-1983 standing |
Whether a Federal Court in a claim filed under Section 1983 can void a disbarment judgment of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico in which the disbarred … |
| 21-1398 |
Nelson Daniel Centeno v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico |
Puerto Rico |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
acquittals constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure judicial-precedent non-unanimous-verdict puerto-rico puerto-rico-law ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment |
Does this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana bar Puerto Rico from continuing to authorize non-unanimous acquittals? |
| 21-929 |
Marie Henry v. The Florida Bar, et al. |
Florida |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
bar-membership civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process first-amendment free-speech integrated-bar judicial-ethics keller-v-state-bar-of-california standing |
Whether the Florida Bar's compulsory membership and dues violate the First Amendment right to refrain from subsidizing the organization's political or… |
| 21-659 |
Asociación de Periodistas de Puerto Rico v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-closure domestic-violence due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings press-rights public-access standing |
Whether courts may summarily close judicial proceedings and deny access to the official recordings of those proceedings without determining whether th… |
| 21-5542 |
Camilo Jose Arango Latorre v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico |
Puerto Rico |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
constitutional-rule discriminatory-act due-process fair-trial perjured-testimony reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Whether the nonretroactive application of the constitutional rule of Ramos v. Louisiana, in this case being substantive and/or discretionary for the s… |
| 21-190 |
Carlos W. Santiago v. Josean Toucet, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
appeal appellate-rights confession confession-suppression criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct trial-transparency |
If due process of law is violated when a judge in a hidden trial disappears and erases from his judgment the confession obtained through strong cross-… |
| 20-1466 |
Hermandad de Empleados del Fondo del Seguro del Estado, Inc., et al. v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
burden-of-proof constitutional-law contract-clause fiscal-crisis heightened-scrutiny legislative-impairment public-contract reasonableness-and-necessity |
Whether placing the burden of proof on the plaintiffs regarding the reasonableness and necessity of a legislation that impaired a public contract conf… |
| 20-126 |
Andalusian Global Designated Activity Company, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-law creditor-liens municipal-finance property-rights secured-lending statutory-interpretation |
Whether ERS' entitlement to future pension contributions is 'property' and the subsequent payments 'proceeds' under 11 U.S.C. § 552(b)(1) |
| 18-1514 |
United States v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Judgment Issued |
appointments appointments-clause constitutional-law officers-of-the-united-states promesa public-officers puerto-rico separation-of-powers territorial-government territorial-officers |
Whether the members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico are 'Officers of the United States' within the meaning of the Appo… |
| 18-1475 |
Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Judgment Issued |
appointments-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-violation de-facto-officer-doctrine meaningful-relief ongoing-injury principal-officers separation-of-powers standing |
Does the de facto officer doctrine allow courts to deny meaningful relief to successful separation-of-powers challengers who are suffering ongoing inj… |
| 18-1444 |
Wilson J. Soto Nieves, et al. v. Department of the Family of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
14th-amendment administrative-action administrative-process commonwealth-of-puerto-rico constitutional-rights due-process liberty-interest public-information puerto-rico-law state-courts |
Whether the courts of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico can obviate the mandate of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibiting a state to de… |
| 18-8373 |
Jose J. Galiany-Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
court-officer-fraud criminal-conviction fraud fraud-by-officer-of-court hazel-atlas hazel-atlas-motion officer-of-the-court puerto-rico-territory second-or-successive-2255-petition second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Could a Hazel-Atlas motion be used to attack a criminal conviction? |