The United States Supreme Court revoked the Supreme of Puerto Rico in the case of the Catholic Church of the island.
In an eight-page decision, the federal Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Catholic Church and ordered that the case be returned to the courts of Puerto Rico to be treated again.
“The petition of certiorari and the motions to allow the filing of the friend’s reports of the court are approved, the decision of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico is without effect, and the case is returned for subsequent proceedings that are not inconsistent with this opinion. “, concludes the order of the federal Supreme, issued today in the morning.
The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico had determined that all Catholic entities on the island had to answer for the debt of the Archdiocese of San Juan with the pension of teachers from several Catholic schools.
Meanwhile, the Catholic dioceses argue that they are separate entities, so that the matter belonged only to the Archdiocese of San Juan.
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The Catholic institutions appealed to the federal Supreme Court, where they received support as friends of the court of several influential religious entities of the United States and of the United States attorney general.
The order of the federal Supreme implies that the matter will have to be dealt with practically from the Court of First Instance, which had issued a seizure order for more than $ 4 million against the Catholic Church.
The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States indicates that it does not have to enter into the arguments of the parties about whether the right of the Catholic Church to establish its own structure was violated.
He points out that it is not necessary “because we found that the Court of First Instance had no jurisdiction to issue the payment and occupation order.”
He pointed out that the Archdiocese of San Juan had gone to the Federal Court for the Pension Trust to go bankrupt. Although that appeal was dismissed, the federal court had not yet returned the case to state courts, so it could not have issued the order to pay.
“The Court of First Instance issued payment and occupation orders after the procedure was removed to the federal District Court, but before the federal Court returned the procedure back to the Court of Puerto Rico”Hold the order.
“At that time, the Court of First Instance had no jurisdiction over the proceedings. Therefore, the orders are invalid,” the Supreme Court ruled.
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