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Robert M. Glen v. Trip Advisor LLC, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 21-1842 · judgment August 18, 2022
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
Kwaku Affawua Akowuah
Sidley Austin LLP
Proceedings
- Jan 17 2023Petition DENIED.
- Dec 28 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/13/2023.
- Dec 22 2022Waiver of right of respondents Tripadvisor LLC, et al. to respond filed.
- Dec 16 2022Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 20, 2023)
- Oct 28 2022Application (22A355) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until December 16, 2022.
- Oct 26 2022Application (22A355) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 16, 2022 to January 10, 2023, submitted to Justice Alito.