( November 17, 2025, 11:01 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Nov. 14 vacated her Nov. 5 stay of a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision that cleared the way for the Republic of the Philippines to receive the millions of dollars in a U.S. bank account opened by former President Ferdinand E. Marcos and denied the application for stay filed by a class of individuals who were subject to Marcos’ human rights abuses....