ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On November 22, 2022, sixteen municipalities of Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Puerto Rico seeking to hold coal, oil, and gas companies liable for losses resulting from storms during the 2017 hurricane season and ongoing economic losses since that time. In Municipalities of Puerto Rico v.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

Department of Homeland Security, was charged last Friday by a federal grand jury in Puerto Rico for allegedly accepting money from someone in exchange for his assistance with immigration status and submitting a false statement on a loan application to the Federal Employee Retirement Thrift Savings Plan.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Through oral arguments, the court will determine whether the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act’s general grant of jurisdiction to the US federal courts preempts a Puerto Rican governmental body’s sovereign authority. On January 11, the court will hear arguments in Financial Oversight Board v.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Garland the court is again asked to examine administrative procedure, this time in the context of an immigration proceeding. Leon Santos-Zacaria is an immigrant who was removed from the US but later reentered the country. That holding was later upheld by the Board of Immigration Appeals, an administrative body.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2021

These relists include petitions about sentencing reform for crimes involving crack cocaine , unequal treatment of Puerto Rico in a federal safety-net program , and President Donald Trump’s practice of blocking his critics on Twitter. Other petitions are scheduled for consideration at Friday’s conference for the first time.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

De George , the Supreme Court held that the term “crime involving moral turpitude” in federal immigration law is not unconstitutionally vague. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. In its 1951 decision in Jordan v. citizen the following year.

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JURIST

JANUARY 29, 2022

Villanueva spent a large part of his childhood in Puerto Rico and is of part Puerto Rican heritage himself. ” Villanueva also promised to end the “pipeline to deportation” by cutting off the Sheriff’s Department’s cooperation and financial ties with federal immigration authorities. .”

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