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The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico (Tribunal Supremo) is the highest court of Puerto Rico, having judicial authority to interpret and decide questions of Puerto Rican law.The Court is analogous to one of the state supreme courts of the states of the United States; being the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico the highest state court and the court of last resort in Puerto Rico.
The Supreme Court Building is at the entrance of the city of San Juan. The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico was established by the Foraker Act in 1900 [4] and maintained in the 1952 Constitution of Puerto Rico. [5] It is the only appellate court required by the Constitution. All other courts are created by the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico is the only current U.S. jurisdiction whose legal system operates primarily in a language other than American English: namely, Spanish.Because the U.S. federal government operates primarily in English, Puerto Rican attorneys are typically bilingual in order to litigate in English in U.S. federal courts and to litigate federal preemption issues in Puerto Rican courts.
The United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (in case citations, D.P.R.; Spanish: Tribunal del Distrito de Puerto Rico) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The court is based in San Juan. The main building is the Clemente Ruiz Nazario United States Courthouse located in ...
U.S. Const. amends. I, XIV. Posadas de Puerto Rico Associates v. Tourism Co. of Puerto Rico, 478 U.S. 328 (1986), was a 1986 appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States to determine whether Puerto Rico 's Games of Chance Act of 1948 is in legal compliance with the United States Constitution, specifically as regards freedom of speech, equal ...
V; Puerto Rico Arms Act of 2000. Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle, 579 U.S. ___ (2016), is a criminal case that came before the Supreme Court of the United States, which considered whether Puerto Rico and the federal government of the United States are separate sovereigns for purposes of the Double Jeopardy Clause of the United States Constitution.
1974 (age 49–50) San Juan, Puerto Rico. Spouse. Maite Oronoz Rodríguez. Education. University of Puerto Rico ( BA, JD) Princeton University ( MA) Gina Raquel Méndez-Miró (born 1974) [ 2] is a Puerto Rican jurist serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.
List of justices of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. Severo Quiñones Court. Chief Justice: José Severo Quiñones (1900–1909) 1898–1899: Maragliano | Hernández Santiago | de Diego Martínez | Figueras | Nieto Abeillé | Roméu Aguayo. 1898–1899: