CABRERA v. MUNICIPALITY OF BAYAMON

Nos. 79-1494, 79-1516.

622 F.2d 4 (1980)

Jose Ortega CABRERA et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. MUNICIPALITY OF BAYAMON et al., Defendants, Appellees. Jose Ortega CABRERA et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. MUNICIPALITY OF BAYAMON et al. Ramon Luis Rivera, etc., Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 28, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arturo Aponte Pares, Hato Rey, P. R., with whom Olaquibeet A. Lopez Pacheco, Hato Rey, P. R., was on brief, for Jose Ortega Cabrera, et al.

Jose E. Bosch Roque, Bayamon, P. R., with whom Francisco Ponsa Feliu, F. Ponsa Flores, San Juan, P. R., and Elmer Toro Lucchetti, Santurce, P. R., were on briefs, for Municipality of Bayamon, et al.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge, WISDOM, Senior Circuit Judge.


COFFIN, Chief Judge.

Again we address legal and practical problems arising from the lamentable inadequacies of the municipal dump in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Fuller descriptions of the factual background and procedural history are given in our earlier opinion, Ortega Cabrera v. Municipality of Bayamon, 562 F.2d 91 (1st Cir. 1977). For present purposes we need only recall that the dump, intended as a "sanitary landfill" for solid...

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