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Robert M. Glen v. American Airlines, Inc.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 20-10903 · judgment August 2, 2021
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, 22 U.S.C. § 6081 et seq., is a broad remedial statute that authorizes U.S. nationals whose property was confiscated by the Castro regime to assert trafficking claims against those who now unlawfully engage in commercial activity that benefits from confiscated Cuban property. The question presented is whether the single word “acquires” in Section 6082(a)(4)(B) of the Act bars trafficking actions by U.S. heirs who passively inherited claims to confiscated property during the 23 years between the Act’s passage in March 1996 and the lifting of the suspension of its private right of action in May 2019.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Craig Allen Boneau
Reid Collins & Tsai LLP
For respondent
Benjamin Charles Mizer
Jones Day
Proceedings
- Jan 18 2022Petition DENIED.
- Jan 10 2022Brief amici curiae of Dan Burton, Robert Torricelli, and Directorio Democratico Cubano, Inc. filed. (Distributed)
- Dec 29 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/14/2022.
- Dec 28 2021Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Robert M. Glen
- Dec 21 2021Waiver of right of respondent American Airlines, Inc. to respond filed.
- Dec 15 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 19, 2022)
- Oct 14 2021Application (21A78) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until December 16, 2021.
- Oct 11 2021Application (21A78) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from October 31, 2021 to December 16, 2021, submitted to Justice Alito.