Showing posts with label Puerto Rico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Puerto Rico. Show all posts
Monday, February 24, 2020

Supreme Court GVRs Puerto Rico Decision On Pension Liability of Catholic Church

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Th U.S. Supreme Court today issued opinions granting certiorari, vacating the judgment of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court and remanding for fu...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Cert Filed In Puerto Rico Catholic School Pension Case

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A petition for certiorari ( full text) was filed last month in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan Puerto Rico v. Feliciano  (filed 1/14...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Puerto Rico Supreme Court Stays Seizure of Catholic Church Assets In Teacher Pension Dispute

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AP reports that Puerto Rico's Supreme Court yesterday temporarily stayed a ruling entered earlier in the day by a trial court judge agai...
Friday, March 16, 2018

No Bivens Claim For Interference With Religious Exercise In Puerto Rican Forest

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In Twum-Baah v. U.S. Department of Agriculture ,  (D PR, March 12, 2018), a Puerto Rico federal district court dismissed Federal Tort Claims...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Puerto Rico Federal District Court Rules Says Catholic School Pension Plan Is Covered By ERISA

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In  Martinez-Gonzalez v. Catholic Schools of the Archdioceses of San Juan Pension Plan , 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11903 (D PR, Jan. 27, 2017),...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

1st Circuit: No Qualified Immunity In Establishment Clause Suit Against Puerto Rico Police Officials

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In Marrero-Mendez v. Calixto-Rodriguez , (1st Cir., July 19, 2016), the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a Puerto Rico federal ...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Jehovah's Witnesses Win Another Round In Bid To Access Gated Communities In Puerto Rico

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Watchtower Bible Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. Municipality of Ponce ,  (D PR, July 6, 2016), is the latest installment in a 12-year ba...
Monday, April 25, 2016

Puerto Rico Tax Authorities Will Begin To Audit Churches

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Puerto Rico's Secretary of the Treasury Juan Zaragoza says that beginning next month his agency will begin to audit religious organizati...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

1st Circuit Applies Obergefell To Puerto Rico

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In In re Conde-Vidal ,  (1st Cir., April 7, 2016), the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals repudiated the holding by a federal district court ...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Federal District Judge Says Obergefell Does Not Bind Puerto Rico

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In Vidal v. Garcia-Padilla ,  (D PR, March 8, 2016), a Puerto Rico federal district court held that the recognition of same-sex marriage in ...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Jehovah's Witnesses In Puerto Rico Win Access To Additional Gated Communities To Proselytize

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In 2013, a Puerto Rico federal district court, in a case on remand from the 1st Circuit, ordered neighborhood homeowners' associations (...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Puerto Rico Concedes On Same-Sex Marriage Laws

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Last October, a Puerto Rico federal district court gave a rare victory to opponents of same-sex marriage. (See prior posting. )  Plaintiffs ...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Court Issues Enforcement Orders To Assure Jehovah's Witnesses Access To Puerto Rico Urbanizations

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In Watchtower Bible Tract Society of N.Y. Inc. v. Municipality of El Dorado , (D PR, Jan. 26, 2015), a Puerto Rico federal magistrate judge...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Puerto Rico Court Upholds Ban On Same-Sex Marriage

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In one of the few recent victories for opponents of same-sex marriage, the federal district court for the district of Puerto Rico yesterday ...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

Police Officer States Establishment Clause Claim

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In  Marrero-Mendez v. Pesquera , 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 116118 (D PR, Aug. 19, 2014), a Puerto Rico federal district court held that a Puert...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Puerto Rico Supreme Court Upholds Subpoenas Against Church In Part

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In Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Puerto Rico-Arecibo v. Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,   2014 PR Sup. LEXIS 87 (P...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

Puerto Rico Appeals Court Applies Ministerial Exception Doctrine

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In Vega v. Barbara Ann Roessler Church, Inc.,   2014 PR App LEXIS 1954 (PR Ct. App., May 30, 2014), the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals in a 2...