All posts tagged "Scotus"

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  PRMA to US Supreme Court: Services, Jobs in Jeopardy without Restructuring Framework

  SAN JUAN – The lack of a legal framework to allow a fair restructuring of Puerto Rico’s debt and that of its public corporations threatens the manufacturing sector, which provides 350,000 direct and indirect jobs on the...

  • Posted January 31, 2016
• Attorney to U.S. Supreme Court: Keeping Puerto Rico out Bankruptcy Code Protections is Unconstitutional

  SAN JUAN – Pro-statehood attorney Gregorio Igartúa urged the U.S. Supreme Court in a friend of the court brief to rule that Puerto Rico is an “incorporated territory” of the United States to stop the “discriminatory treatment”...

  • Posted January 28, 2016
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• Advocates Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Allow Puerto Rico to Restructure Debt

  SAN JUAN – New York-based civil rights organization LatinoJustice PRLDEF (Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund), on behalf of more than a dozen organizations, filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to allow Puerto...

  • Posted January 27, 2016
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• Former Governor says Delay in Addressing Status is Unacceptable

  SAN JUAN – The Popular Democratic Party (PDP) has suggested that it will wait for the U.S. Supreme Court’s expressions on the double jeopardy clause case before it, which has political status implications for Puerto Rico, to...

  • Posted January 26, 2016
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