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DE J. CORDERO v. PRENSA INSULAR DE PUERTO RICO

No. 4282.

169 F.2d 229 (1948)

DE J. CORDERO v. PRENSA INSULAR DE PUERTO RICO, Inc., et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals. First Circuit.

July 23, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel D. Slade, Atty., Dept. of Justice, of Washington, D. C. (Herbert A. Bergson, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., and Alvin O. West, Atty., Mastin G. White, Sol., Irwin W. Silverman, Chief Counsel, Division of Territories and Island Possessions, and Shirley Ecker Boskey, Atty., Dept. of the Interior, all of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellant.

Guillermo Cintron Ayuso, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, for appellees.

Elisha Hanson and Letitia Armistead, of American Newspaper Publishers Assn., both of Washington, D. C., amicus curiae.

Before MAGRUDER, MAHONEY and WOODBURY, Circuit Judges.

MAGRUDER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, entered March 26, 1947, directing the issuance of a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring appellant Rafael de J. Cordero, the Auditor of Puerto Rico, to permit appellees to inspect and take notes of certain documents relating to transactions between the Government of Puerto Rico and the firms Concrete Industries, Inc., and Caguas Development Company. By way of defense,...

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