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Igartua de la Rosa v. United States

The Puerto Rico Presidential Voting Decision

from the 

United States Court of Appeals

For the First Circuit

No. 00-2083

GREGORIO IGARTUA DE LA ROSA, ET AL.,

Plaintiffs, Appellees,

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Defendant, Appellant.

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COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO,

Intervenor.

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APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

[Hon. Jaime Pieras, Jr., Senior U.S. District Judge]

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Before

Juan R. Torruella, Chief Judge,

Sandra L. Lynch and Kermit V. Lipez, Circuit Judges.

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Matthew M. Collette, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, with whom Jacob M. Lewis, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General, and Guillermo Gil, U.S. Attorney, were on brief, for appellant.

Gregorio Igartua for appellee.

Angel E. Rotger Sabat, Attorney General, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Gustavo A. Gelpi, Solicitor General, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, with whom John F. Nevares, Carlos Lugo-Fiol, and Smith and Nevares, were on brief, for intervenor-appellee Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Charles J. Cooper, Michael A. Carvin, Jeffrey A. Tomasevich, and Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal on brief for amicus curiae Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico.

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October 13, 2000

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