SOLA v. SANCHEZ VILELLA

Civ. No. 456-67.

270 F.Supp. 459 (1967)

Frederick SOLA et al., Plaintiffs, v. The Hon. Roberto SANCHEZ VILELLA, Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Hon. Rafael Hernandez Colon, Secretary of Justice of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Ernesto Mieres Calimano, General Supervisor of Elections, Samuel R. Quiñones and Baldomero Roig Velez, being and constituting the Commonwealth Board of Elections, and also in their individual capacities Ernesto Mieres Calimano, Samuel R. Quiñones, Baldomero Roig Velez, Carlos Romero Barcelo and Hector Alvarez Silva, being and constituting the Plebiscitary Board, and the Hon. Jorge Font Saldaña, Secretary of Finance of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Puerto Rico.

July 14, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Manuel Nelson Zapata, New York City, Santos P. Amadeo, Rio Piedras, P. R., for plaintiffs.

Rafael Hernández Colón, Atty. Gen., Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Rafarl A. Rivera Cruz, Asst. Atty. Gen., Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Dept. of Justice, San Juan, P. R., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ELMO B. HUNTER, District Judge.

On July 3, 1967, the fifteen plaintiffs filed a Complaint For Declaratory Judgment and Injunctive Relief, alleging that they are citizens of the United States and are at present citizens of the states of New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. They state they migrated from Puerto Rico, where they were native inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. They...

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