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John A. Tortora v. Maria I. Alvarez

Paid petition · Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, No. A-3379-14T4 · judgment July 17, 2017

Certiorari denied · October 1, 2018

Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether the New Jersey State Court’s decision to deem two American-born citizens lawfully married in Cuba, when the parties obtained no license from the Office of Foreign Asset Control, prohibitively undermines the President’s broad, extensive, and exclusive foreign affairs authority to administer the Cuban Foreign Asset Control Regulations authorized under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Jenny Berse
Berse Law, LLC

For respondent
Louis J. Lamatina
The Law Office of Louis J. Lamatina

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

Oct 01 2018
Petition DENIED.
Jun 13 2018
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
Jun 05 2018
Waiver of right of respondent Maria Alvarez to respond filed.
May 10 2018
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 18, 2018)