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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-84 Enrique Vazquez-Quintana v. Hermenegildo Martinez Remigio, et al. Puerto Rico 2024-07-25 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection expert-testimony insular-cases judicial-integrity judicial-practices medical-licensing puerto-rico How can the Supreme Court reconcile substandard judicial practices, false expert testimony, and unequal constitutional application in Puerto Rico?
23-361 Brian D. Swanson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-interpretation federal-appellate-procedure frivolous-sanction income-tax insular-cases puerto-rico territorial-status uniformity-clause unincorporated-territory Has Puerto Rico become an incorporated Territory and become fully subject to the Constitution's Uniformity Clause when collecting the Federal Income T…
22-142 Federacion de Maestros de Puerto Rico, Inc. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied constitutional-analysis constitutional-preemption insular-cases oversight-board plan-of-adjustment preemption preemption-doctrine promesa puerto-rico puerto-rico-law statutory-preemption Whether the preemption doctrine allows for the displacement and amendment of Puerto Rico laws by the Oversight Board through a Plan of Adjustment conf…
21-1394 John Fitisemanu, et al. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied Amici (9)Relisted (2) 14th-amendment birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment insular-cases territorial-status territories Whether persons born in United States Territories are entitled to birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause, includin…
21-718 Hermandad de Empleados del Fondo del Seguro del Estado, et al. v. United States, et al. First Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights decolonization disenfranchisement due-process insular-cases self-governance territories-clause voting-rights Whether Petitioners have standing to challenge the constitutionality of PROMESA
18-331 Rafael Pabon Ortega v. Isabel Llompart Zeno, et al. First Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-law ex-parte-young first-amendment insular-cases promesa puerto-rico section-1983 Whether the automatic stay provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 362, 922, as incorporated into PROMESA are unconstitutional as applied by t…