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23-678 Pedro Pierluisi, Governor of Puerto Rico, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico First Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied bankruptcy-code close-nexus-test fiscal-plan oversight-board policy-dispute promesa related-to-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction title-iii Title-III-court 1. Under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act ("PROMESA") Section 306(a)(2), the Title III Court's subject-matter jurisdi…
23-674 Rafael Hernández-Montañez v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico First Circuit 2023-12-21 Denied Amici (1) 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 On June 30, 2016, in response to a severe financial crisis that rendered the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico insolvent after the territory declared its in…
22-484 Pedro Pierluisi, Governor of Puerto Rico, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico First Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law administrative-review board-determination civil-rights due-process federalism fiscal-plan legislative-oversight promesa puerto-rico-sovereignty statutory-interpretation territorial-self-rule 1. What standard of review governs a district court's evaluation of the Board's determination that Puerto Rican legislation "would impair or defeat th…
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 1. Whether the preemption doctrine allows for the displacement and amendment of Puerto Rico laws by the Oversight Board through a Plan of Adjustment c…
19-1305 Wanda Vázquez-Garced, Governor of Puerto Rico, et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. First Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied democratic-governance democratic-representation elected-government fiscal-plan fund-reprogramming governance-of-territories oversight-board promesa promesa-section-202 promesa-section-204-c puerto-rico statutory-interpretation territorial-governance 1. Whether the Oversight Board may preemptively override the elected Government's ability to request reprogramming of funds under PROMESA section 204(…
18-1514 United States v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2019-06-06 Judgment Issued Amici (1) 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…
18-331 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…