Was the ruling for both Hernandez v. Texas and Berman v. Parker unanimous?
Berman v. Parker Berman v. Parker, 348 U.S. 26 (1954) is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that interpreted the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause: "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation" in the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The Court voted 8–0, holding private property could be taken for a public "purpose" with just compensation. This case laid the foundation for the Court's later important public use cases, "Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff", 467 U.S. 229 (1984) and "Kelo v. City of New London", 545 U.S. 469 (2005). Critics of recent occurrences of eminent domain uses trace what they view as property rights violations to this case.
Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle, 579 U.S. ___ (2016) , is a criminal case that came before the Supreme Court of the United States. In the case, the court considered whether Puerto Rico and the federal government of the United States are separate sovereigns for purposes of the Double Jeopardy Clause of the U.S. Constitution. In essence, this clause establishes that an individual cannot be tried for the same offense twice under the same sovereignty. The petitioner claimed that Puerto Rico possesses a different sovereignty because of the island's current political status while others claimed that it does not—including the respondent, the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, and the Solicitor General of the United States. Finally, in a 6-2 decision, the court affirmed that the Double Jeopardy Clause bars Puerto Rico and the United States from successively prosecuting a single person for the same conduct under equivalent criminal laws.