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SEA-LAND SERVICES, INC. v. MUNICIPALITY OF SAN JUAN

Civ. No. 1143-72.

505 F.Supp. 533 (1980)

SEA-LAND SERVICES, INC. et als Plaintiffs v. The MUNICIPALITY OF SAN JUAN et als Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico.

September 18, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jiménez & Fusté, San Juan, P. R., for plaintiffs.

William H. Preston, Jr., Jorge Hernández Pérez and Jorge Souss, San Juan, P. R., for Municipality of San Juan.

Emeterio Maldonado Guzmán, Arecibo, P. R., for Municipality of Arecibo.

Natalio García, Dept. of Justice, San Juan, P. R., for Municipality of Ponce.

OPINION AND ORDER

PESQUERA, Chief Judge.

In this case, we have been asked to solve two constitutional questions of paramount importance. In the presence of weighty authority to the contrary,1 we are urged to hold that the commerce2 and "import—export"3 clauses of the U.S. Constitution apply to Puerto Rico. On that account, we must ascertain whether the municipal...

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