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Case of the Day: Villoldo v. Castro
The case of the day is Villoldo v. Castro (1st Cir. 2016). Westlaw calls the case Villoldo v. Ruz. I’m no Spanish naming convention expert, but that seems clearly wrong. Anyway, Alfredo and Gustavo Villoldo were Cuban brothers. In 1959, the Cuban government confiscated their father’s property and threatened them, even after they fled to […]
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Case of the Day: Jerez v. Republic of Cuba
The case of the day is Jerez v. Republic of Cuba (D.C. Cir. 2014). This is the appeal from the case of the day from September 13, 2013. Nilo Jerez claimed he had been tortured by the Cuban government in the 1960s and 1970s. In 2005, he sued Cuba in a Florida state court under […]
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Cuba and International Judicial Assistance
On Wednesday, President Obama announced that the United States and Cuba will normalize their relations. This announcement, the long-overdue release of American Alan Gross on humanitarian grounds, and the honorable exchange of three of the so-called “Cuban Five” for a US intelligence agent, show that despite the predictable fury from American hardliners on Cuba such […]
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Case of the Day: Jerez v. Republic of Cuba
The case of the day is Jerez v. Republic of Cuba (D.D.C. 2013). In 2005, Nilo Jerez sued Cuba and various government officials and agencies, including Fidel and Raul Castro, alleging that he had been tortured in a Cuban prison in the early 1970s. He obtained a default judgment in a Florida state court, and […]