Hatfield-Bermudez v. Aldanondo-Rivera

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “it is not entirely clear” what the Puerto Rico Supreme Court’s current position is on whether a non-career government employee has a legitimate expectation of permanent employment
• “The granting of a mistrial is a last resort, and the trial court’s usual remedy for an impropriety will be to give a curative instruction.”
• referring to these four elements as the prima facie case
• “The granting of a mistrial is a last resort, and the trial court’s usual remedy for an impropriety will be to give a curative instruction. . . . The normal presumption is that a jury will follow a court’s curative instruction.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).