insular-cases
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 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 | 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… | |
| 21-1394 | John Fitisemanu, et al. v. United States, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2022-04-29 | Denied | Amici (9)Relisted (2) | 14th-amendment birthright-citizenship citizenship-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process fourteenth-amendment insular-cases territorial-status territories | Whether persons born in United States Territories are entitled to birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause, includin… |
| 21-718 | Hermandad de Empleados del Fondo del Seguro del Estado, et al. v. United States, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-11-16 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights decolonization disenfranchisement due-process insular-cases self-governance territories-clause voting-rights | Whether Petitioners, as residents and registered voters in Puerto Rico, have suffered an Article III injury in fact when Congress enacted PROMESA and … |
| 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… |