Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., et al., No. 24-983. Creed & Gowdy attorneys Bryan Gowdy and Dimitri Peteves drafted an amicus brief in support of the petitioner. The amicus brief was filed on behalf of a bipartisan group of congresspersons: Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart, Sen. Rick Scott, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Rep. María Elvira Salazar, and Rep. Carlos Antonio Giménez. The petitioner, Havana Docks, sued several cruise lines under the Helms-Burton Act-also known as the LIBERTAD Act-for trafficking in property confiscated by Cuba. The question presented in the petition is whether a plaintiff must prove that the defendant trafficked in property confiscated by the Cuban government as to which the plaintiff owns a claim (as the statute requires), or instead that the defendant trafficked in property that the plaintiff would have continued to own at the time of trafficking in a counterfactual world "as if there had been no expropriation" (as the divided Eleventh Circuit panel held below).