RIVERA v. CHAPEL

Nos. 74-1002, 74-1003.

493 F.2d 1302 (1974)

Lisandro RIVERA et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Antonio Gonzalez CHAPEL et al., Defendants, Appellants, Puerto Rico Farmers Association, Intervenor. Lisandro RIVERA et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Antonio Gonzalez CHAPEL et al., Defendants, Appellees, Puerto Rico Farmers Association, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 29, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Ortiz, Deputy Sol. Gen., with whom Miriam Naveira De Rodom, San Juan, P. R. was on memorandum, for Antonio Gonzalez Chapel, and others.

Pedro J. Varela, Hato Rey, P. R., for Lisandro Rivera, and others.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, McENTEE and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs are consumers of milk who, invoking 42 U.S.C. § 1983, challenged a Commonwealth-wide milk regulation (Milk Regulation I) which established a price increase in Puerto Rican milk and an automatic formula for basing monthly adjustments of price upon the price of animal feed. Plaintiffs obtained an injunction against the continuation of the system but failed to get a roll back in prices. Hence their appeal. Defendants, the Secretary...

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