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11 unusual facts about Supreme Court of Puerto Rico


Efraín Rivera Pérez

Efraín Rivera Pérez (1951- 15 September 2013) born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico , was a former Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.

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Francisco Rebollo

title=Associate Justice to the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico|

Francisco Rebollo, a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, served in that position from 1982 to 2008.

José Andreu García

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Liana Fiol Matta

Liana Fiol Matta (born 1946) in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico is a Puerto Rican jurist currently serving as an Associate Justice in the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.

Louis Sulzbacher

Louis Sulzbacher (May 10, 1842 – January 17, 1915) was the first continental American appointed as Associate Justice of the newly created Supreme Court of Puerto Rico in 1900.

Luis Estrella Martínez

Attorney Luis Estrella-Martínez, born on November 17, 1971 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, has been nominated by Governor Luis Fortuño to become the youngest Associate Justice of the current Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.

Mita Congregation

After a legal battle the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico determined that Aaron must undergo a paternity test.

Supreme Court of Puerto Rico

The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico was established by the Foraker Act in 1900 and maintained in the 1952 Constitution of Puerto Rico.

From 1915 to 1961, decisions of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court could be appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.


A. Cecil Snyder

In 1953, Governor Luis Muñoz Marín, following a long-standing tradition of appointing the most senior Associate Justice as Chief Justice when a vacancy arose, appointed him Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, the first appointment that a Puerto Rican governor made to the court, addressing the nomination to "A. Cecilio Snyder".

Carlos Díaz Olivo

After becoming an attorney, Díaz Olivo worked as a law clerk to then-President of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, José Trías Monge.

Roberto Sánchez Ramos

After law school, Sanchez Ramos clerked for Justice Federico Hernández Denton of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico and for Judge A. Wallace Tashima of the Ninth Circuit.