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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 court is based in San Juan. The main building is the Clemente Ruiz Nazario United States Courthouse located in the Hato Rey district of San Juan. The magistrate judges are located in the adjacent Federico Degetau Federal Building, and several senior district judges hold court at the Jose V. Toledo Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Old ...
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.
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.
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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:
San Juan City Hall (Spanish: Casa de la Alcaldía de San Juan, or Alcaldía de San Juan) is the seat of government for the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan in Puerto Rico. The city hall is located in Old San Juan, in front of the Plaza de Armas and next to the Antiguo Palacio de la Real Intendencia (Palace of the Royal Intendancy) , which ...
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).