SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

Share Residents of Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories do not have a constitutional right to receive certain federal benefits that the government provides to people who live in the 50 states, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in an 8-1 decision. The case, United States v. Jose Luis Vaello-Madero, a U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 13, 2022

Bidwell , which excluded Puerto Rico from Article I tax law, refers to “an uncivilized race” and the danger of “incorporat[ing] an alien and hostile people into the United States.”. People born in the other territories — Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. territories. Then in Dred Scott v.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A lower Washington state court found that the strike was protected by the NLRA, which would mean the issue is properly heard before the National Labor Relations Board. The Teamsters are asking that the court affirm this lower court ruling, while Glacier seeks to enforce state tort law.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In 2014, the Supreme Court ruled in Harris v. After the court’s decision in Harris , the challengers in this case – home health care workers and a non-profit group – began a campaign to notify other workers of the ruling and to try to unseat one of the unions representing the workers. territories.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Under a series of cases the Supreme Court decided over 100 ago, known as the Insular Cases, people born in unincorporated U.S. People born in the other territories — Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. citizenship. Virgin Islands — do have birthright citizenship by act of Congress.)

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JURIST

MAY 11, 2023

The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against a group of Puerto Rico journalists who were seeking documents from the island’s financial oversight board, saying that the board is protected from such information requests by sovereign immunity. The case, Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 12, 2024

In an earlier blogpost we reported that the Amsterdam District Court ruled that it had international jurisdiction under the Brussels I-bis Regulation and the GDPR. The settlement addressed issues very similar to those raised in this case, as explicitly outlined in the agreement.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

Share An intriguingly divided court ruled Monday in Denezpi v. United States , upholding the federal court conviction of a defendant previously prosecuted and sentenced by a Court of Indian Offenses for charges stemming from the same incident. Wheeler and, more recently, Puerto Rico v.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 10, 2021

and Puerto Rico. Ltd have since been battling over the rights in the Fiorucci name with the Italian Supreme Court ruling in October 2016 that the designer’s estate may not use his name. Payless filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in St. Paul Jones said in a statement. Ltd, for roughly $41 million in 1990.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In that case, Ann Hopkins was denied a promotion because she was perceived as “pushy” and “too macho,” and the Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that the company’s actions violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. It was the first time the court recognized that gender stereotyping qualifies as unlawful sex discrimination.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Share Jose Luis Vaello-Madero is an American citizen who was born in Puerto Rico. But when he moved back to Puerto Rico to be closer to his family, Vaello-Madero lost his SSI benefits because, by law, Puerto Rico residents are excluded from the program. Two lower courts ruled in favor of Vaello-Madero.

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