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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.
San Juan: 1967 2019–present 2021–present — Trump: 16 District Judge Aida Delgado-Colón: San Juan: 1955 2006–present 2011–2018 — G.W. Bush: 19 District Judge Pedro Delgado Hernández: San Juan: 1956 2014–present — — Obama: 21 District Judge Silvia Carreño-Coll: San Juan: 1963 2020–present — — Trump: 22 District Judge ...
From the initial settlement of San Juan, this harbor side site has been critical to the city's defense and economic development. Initially, portions of the site contained a Spanish fortification, the Bastion de San Justo del Muelle, which was built in 1639 (shortly after the city was invaded by the Dutch) and remained in place until 1897. The ...
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
The chief justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Jefe del Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico) is the presiding officer of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. The post of chief justice was created by Article V of the Constitution of Puerto Rico. [1] The constitution also established in several articles that the chief justice must:
Nahualá is the location of radio station Nawal Estereo, the Internet-accessible modern successor to the station La Voz de Nahualá, which was founded in Nahualá with the assistance of Roman Catholic clerics from the Diocese of Helena Montana in the 1960s.
The municipality of San Juan is divided into 18 barrios, 16 of which fall within the former (until 1951) municipality of Río Piedras. Eight of the barrios are further divided into subbarrios, [ 1 ] and they include the two barrios that originally composed the municipality of San Juan (namely, San Juan Antiguo and Santurce).