Pro-Bono Inc. urges Puerto Rico lawyers to help expand access to justice
April 30, 2025
Nonprofit seeks volunteer attorneys to provide free legal aid in areas like housing, family, and employment law. #NewsismyBusiness
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San Juan sidewalks to become disability-friendly under U.S. Justice Dept. order
June 26, 2023
Following a discrimination lawsuit for violation of the ADA, the agency proposes an order to make public sidewalks more accessible. #NewsismyBusiness
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Latino legislators reject US Dept. of Justice cannabis directive
January 8, 2018
The National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators rejected a memorandum by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions revoking Obama Administration policy that directed U.S. attorneys not to focus scarce law enforcement resources in prosecuting low-level cannabis offenders in states where it has become legal for either medical or recreational use.
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P.R.’s budding cannabis sector ‘vulnerable’ after US DOJ policy change
January 5, 2018
Puerto Rico’s budding medicinal cannabis industry has been put in a tough spot after the U.S. Department of Justice reverted a number of guidance documents regulating the cultivation, distribution and possession of marijuana.
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EDB, Justice sign MOU for property registry oversight
September 1, 2017
The Puerto Rico Economic Development Bank and the Justice Department announced Thursday the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding that will streamline processes, increase administrative efficiency and strengthen enforcement efforts related to the Property Registry for both agencies.
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Arecibo aquarium owner pled guilty to felony violations
August 24, 2017
Aristides Sánchez, owner of the Arecibo-based saltwater aquarium business, Wonders of the Reef Aquarium, pleaded guilty to two felony violations of the federal Lacey Act for collecting, purchasing, falsely labeling, and shipping protected marine invertebrate species as part of an effort to subvert Puerto Rican law designed to protect corals and other reef species, the Department of Justice announced.
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Justice asks SCOTUS to review validity of Law 71
August 24, 2015
The Puerto Rico Department of Justice has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for certiorari, ruling the constitutional validity of the Public Corporation Debt Restructuring Act, which would allow the island’s public corporations to restructure their debts through an orderly process.
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Doral, gov’t prolong public war of words over tax dispute
August 27, 2014
Doral Financial Corp. and Puerto Rico government officials were back in the public eye Tuesday, when both parties took to the media to defend their reasons for a collapse in court-ordered negotiations regarding a $229 million tax refund the former is claiming, and the latter rescinded.
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Doral, gov’t continue talks on tax refund dispute
August 25, 2014
Despite word that court-ordered talks between the government and Doral Financial Corp. had broken down late Friday, representatives from both parties confirmed negotiations are still on the fate of a $229 million tax refund the bank is claiming from the government.
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Flamers, Bora Bora busted for not paying $1.2M in IVU
February 19, 2014
Two executives who own the Bora Bora and Flamers retail establishments are facing 36 counts of tax evasion and illegal appropriation of public funds for failing to remit more than $1.2 million in sales and use tax money collected between 2009 and 2012, according to the findings of a joint investigation by the Puerto Rico Justice and Treasury Departments.
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Justice Dept. joins FTC’s ‘pay-for-delay’ antitrust complaint
January 28, 2013
The Puerto Rico Justice Department has joined 19 other U.S. jurisdictions in an antitrust case filed by the Federal Trade Commission aimed at fighting monopolistic practices within the pharmaceutical industry that reportedly cost consumers about $3.5 billion per year in the form of higher drug prices.
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Suiza Dairy settles EPA case; to pay $275K fine, invest $3.7M
October 2, 2012
Puerto Rico dairy producer Suiza Dairy has agreed to pay a penalty of $275,000 and invest some $3.75 million in plant upgrades to settle Clean Air Act violations, as per an agreement with the Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Somoza joins attorney generals from 35 states blasting new Google policy
February 22, 2012
Puerto Rico Justice Secretary Guillermo Somoza-Colombani is one of 36 state representatives who signed a five-page letter to Google Inc. President Larry Page voicing “strong concerns” with the new privacy policy the online giant announced will go into effect March 1 for all of its consumer products.
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Op-Ed: A Taíno legacy?
November 28, 2011
Recent studies show that Puerto Ricans’ DNA carries 15 percent of Taíno genes. As described by Christopher Columbus, Taínos “… were well built, with very handsome bodies and very good faces … they do not carry arms or know them. They should be good servants.”
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