A fairly recent decision by the First Circuit Court has wrought havoc with the Commercial Code statute of limitations for the collection of negotiable instruments. In and by itself, FDIC v. Cardona would not represent a mayor disaster since the pertinent part of the opinionMartinez, Emilio S...
There is at least one district court in each state, and the District of Columbia. Each district includes a U.S. bankruptcy court as a unit of the district court. Four territories of the United States have U.S. district courts that hear federal cases, including bankruptcy cases: Puerto Ric...
Each judge may preside alone, or, when there are two or more judges, all may hold sessions of court at the same time. The decisions made in federal district courts are reviewable by the court of appeals in each circuit. All the territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, and ...
Define federal. federal synonyms, federal pronunciation, federal translation, English dictionary definition of federal. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or being a form of government in which a union of states recognizes the sovereignty of a central authority wh
First, the backlash over a comedian's racist comments about Puerto Rico that former President Donald Trump has not apologized for -- and now President Joe Biden appearing to call Trump's supporters "garbage" and stepping on Vice President Kamala Harris' message of unity...
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To overcome this limitation on federal judicial power, an activist Supreme Court developed a line of cases holding that the 14th Amendment was the conduit that allows it to impose the federal restrictions of the Bill of Rights (amendments one through 10) upon state action. An alternative to ame...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Bad Bunny’s sports representation firm was held in contempt Wednesday by a federal judge, who ordered it to withdraw from a new arbitration proceeding it filed against the Major League Baseball Players Association. U.S. District Judge Camille L. Vélez-Rivé al...
The others are in Washington, DC; Puerto Rico; Guam; the U.S. Virgin Islands; and the Northern Mariana Islands. These are the trial courts of the national system, in which federal cases are tried, witness testimony is heard, and evidence is presented. No district court crosses state lines...
Feldesman Attorney Quoted on Puerto Rico’s Gubernatorial Election ByFeldesman Feldesman Senior Counsel Phillip A. Escoriaza was quoted in the November 7, 2024, edition of The Bond Buyer following last week’s election of Puerto Rico’s new governor Jenniffer González Colón. A member [...]...