Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Sociedad Civil Agricola e Industrial Heirs of Serralles v. Puerto Rico

429 U.S. 823

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1976-10-04
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • claim of tie-in of TBA to gasoline rejected when lease did not require purchases and evidence did not show coercion
  • "The general rule is that an interlocutory order from which no appeal lies is merged into the final judgment and open to review on appeal from that judgment."
  • “Had Mrs. Burns wished to expatriate herself she could simply have unequivocally stated that she renounced her American citizenship.”
  • “A trial court has broad discretion in its choice of sanctions for failure to comply with discovery orders and, in appropriate circumstances, it may even dismiss the case.”
  • executor of decedent’s estate stands in the same position as decedent

Citator

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Sup. Ct. P. R. Certiorari denied.