De Castro v. Board of Comm'rs of San Juan

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “to justify reversal by the federal courts of a decision of an insular supreme court in a matter of local concern, ‘the error must be clear or manifest; the interpretation must be inescapably wrong’ ”
• declining to overrule a territorial court on matters of local concern absent “clear” or “manifest” error or an “inescapably wrong” interpretation
• interpreting a statute so that implying life tenure for a large group of \municipal employees [would be] in disregard of the rule of Shurtleff v. United States\
• declining to overrule a territorial court on matters of local concern absent “clear” or “manifest” error or an “inescapably wrong” interpretation
• interpreting a statute so that implying life tenure for a large group of “municipal employees [would be] in disregard of the rule of Shurt leff v. United States”
• reviewing federal circuit court’s affirmance of decision by Puerto Rico Supreme Court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).