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In 2009, the Puerto Rico Legislative Assembly passed a law mandating that membership in the Bar Association would thereafter be voluntary, and although the Bar Association filed suit to challenge the law, the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals upheld the law's constitutionality; subsequently, the Puerto Rico Supreme Court and the United States ...
The Puerto Rican Bar Association (PRBA) is a voluntary association of lawyers of Puerto Rican ethnicity or interest. It is to be distinguished from the Bar Association of Puerto Rico or Colegio de Abogados de Puerto Rico , which is the bar association of Puerto Rico .
The Puerto Rico Department of Justice (PR DOJ) (Spanish: Departamento de Justicia de Puerto Rico) is the Executive Department of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico responsible for the enforcement of the local law in the commonwealth and the administration of justice. The Department is equivalent to the State Bureau of Investigation in many US states.
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Victor Manuel Rivera Gonzalez (born 1948 in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican attorney and former district judge, former Puerto Rico Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and Chief of Police, known in Puerto Rico, especially among prisoners and police officers, for his work during Sila María Calderón's administration.
Roberto Sánchez Ramos (born 1967) is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Puerto Rico and former Attorney General of Puerto Rico, appointed in 2005 by Governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá. Before becoming Attorney General, Sanchez Ramos served as Solicitor General of Puerto Rico. He is the son of former Governor of Puerto Rico Roberto Sánchez Vilella.
Many of the Laws of Puerto Rico (Leyes de Puerto Rico) are modeled after the Spanish Civil Code, which is part of the Law of Spain. [2]After the U.S. government assumed control of Puerto Rico in 1901, it initiated legal reforms resulting in the adoption of codes of criminal law, criminal procedure, and civil procedure modeled after those then in effect in California.
Hans Helmut Hertell (born 1950/51, in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a former United States ambassador to the Dominican Republic.Nominated by President George W. Bush in the summer of 2001, Hertell was sworn in as ambassador on November 8, 2001, and began his duties in the Dominican Republic on November 29, 2001.