El Pueblo de Puerto Rico v. Quiñones Román

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• concluding that section 619 of Tariff Act of 1930 conferred absolute right to compensation on informants who met specified statutory requirements
• holding that section 619 of the Tariff Act of 1930 allowing for discretionary awards allowed an informer an absolute right to compensation once the requirements of the section were met
• construing section 619 of Tariff Act of 1930 to require only original information
• in a Customs reward case, Court of Claims had jurisdiction to decide whether informant made out a case of insufficient payment
• “The Act says that a person ... [meeting the statutory requirements] ‘may be awarded and paid by the Secretary of the Treasury’ a fixed compensa tion----”
• “The Act reads: ‘Any person not an officer of the United States’ who does certain things ‘may be awarded and paid by the Secretary of the Treasury’ a fixed compensation.’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).