| 24A915 |
Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority v. U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Presumed Complete |
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certiorari federal-legislation fiscal-oversight governmental-autonomy puerto-rico supreme-court-rules |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1. How can the Supreme Court of the United States reconcile the substandard judicial practices exemplified by the acceptance of false expert testimony… |
| 24A5 |
First Finance International Bank, Inc. v. Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions |
Puerto Rico |
2024-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
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administrative-law equal-protection financial-regulation foreign-dormant-commerce-clause puerto-rico selective-enforcement |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 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 |
In the decision below, The Eleventh Circuit summarily affirmed the dismissal of petitioner's income tax refund suit, which challenged Puerto Rico's st… |
| 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 |
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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… |
| 22-96 |
Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. |
First Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11) |
abrogation circuit-split federal-jurisdiction financial-oversight-and-management-board puerto-rico puerto-rico-oversight sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
It is a bedrock principle of federalism that a statute does not abrogate sovereign immunity unless Congress's intent to abrogate is "unmistakably clea… |
| 21-1398 |
Nelson Daniel Centeno v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico |
Puerto Rico |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
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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, 590 U.S. __, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020) bar Puerto Rico from continuing to authorize non-unanimous acquit… |
| 21-7632 |
Carlos Gotay-Guzman v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note criminal-history criminal-history-points federal-jurisdiction first-circuit-decision plain-error plain-error-standard puerto-rico puerto-rico-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the First Circuit err when it held Mr. Gotay-Guzman could not establish plain error regarding the assessment of 2 criminal history points for his … |
| 20-1735 |
Angel Manuel Ortiz-Diaz, et al. v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Relisted (2) |
agriculture-improvement-act cockfighting commerce-clause constitutional-power cultural-tradition federal-regulation local-traditions puerto-rico puerto-rico-sovereignty sovereignty |
Whether Congress has power under the Commerce Clause to criminalize cockfighting on the island of Puerto Rico. |
| 20-303 |
United States v. Jose Luis Vaello Madero |
First Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (31)Relisted (6) |
civil-rights congressional-authority due-process equal-protection federal-benefits fifth-amendment puerto-rico statutory-interpretation supplemental-security-income territorial-rights |
Whether Congress violated the equal-protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment by establishing Supplemental Security Income… |
| 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 |
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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(… |
| 19-370 |
Samuel D. Silva-Ramirez v. Hospital Espanol Auxilio Mutuo de Puerto Rico, Inc., et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-law due-process federal-government individual-rights puerto-rico religious-freedom state-sovereignty |
I - Is Puerto Rico and its people under the juris diction of The United States of America Constitution and under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Am… |
| 19-5738 |
Carlos Manuel Perez-Crisostomo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process identity name obstruction-of-justice plea-agreement puerto-rico sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-3c1.1 |
I.- Whether the Sentencing Court erred in founding Petitioner obstructed
justice, pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 3C1.1, when Petitioner did not correct
the … |
| 18-1521 |
Unión de Trabajadores de la Industria Eléctrica y Riego, Inc. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law de-facto-officer de-facto-officer-doctrine ongoing-injury oversight-board principal-officers puerto-rico relief uncon-stitutional-appointments united-states-constitution |
After correctly determining that the members of
the Financial Oversight and Management Board for
Puerto Rico are principal Officers of the United Stat… |
| 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 |
The question presented is whether members of the Board are "Officers of the United States" within the meaning of the Appointments Clause of the U.S. C… |
| 18-1496 |
Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of All Title III Debtors Other Than COFINA v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-law appointments-clause article-ii article-iv constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction financial-oversight financial-oversight-and-management-board financial-oversight-board oversight-board puerto-rico separation-of-powers territorial-clause territorial-governance |
Whether the Appointments Clause governs the appointment of members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico. |
| 18-1334 |
Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2) |
appointments-clause article-iv constitutional-law exceptional-importance federal-government-structure federal-officers financial-oversight-and-management-board merits-review oversight-board puerto-rico separation-of-powers supreme-court territorial-government |
Whether the Appointments Clause governs the appointment of members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico. |
| 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… |