ROMERO-BARCELO v. BROWN

No. 79-1626.

643 F.2d 835 (1981)

Carlos ROMERO-BARCELO, Etc., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Harold BROWN, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 26, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy L. Harker and John A. Hodges, Washington, D. C., with whom Peabody, Rivlin, Lambert & Meyers, Lewis A. Rivlin, Washington, D. C., Miguel Gimenez Munoz, Secretary of Justice, Government of Puerto Rico, Thomas R. Lincoln, Dept. of Justice, San Juan, P. R., Gerardo A. Carlo, Sp. Counsel to the Governor of Puerto Rico, Old San Juan, P. R., Jorge L. Cordova, San Juan, P. R., Lawrence White, and Jeffrey N. Martin, Washington, D. C., were on brief, for appellants.

Anne S. Almy, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., with whom Capt. Thomas E. Flynn, Lt. Cmdr. Eugene M. Pinkelmann, Jr., Office of the Judge Advocate Gen., Dept. of the Navy, Washington, D. C., Richard M. Cornelius, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Dept. of the Navy, Washington, D. C., Sanford Sagalkin, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Peter R. Steenland, Jr., Dorothy R. Burakreis, and Edward J. Shawaker, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., were on brief, for appellees.

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


BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico appeals from the district court's denial of its request for a comprehensive injunction against the United States Navy's military training operations on the Island of Vieques, a municipality of the Commonwealth. Armed with a battery of federal and state laws, Puerto Rico1 alleged that the Navy's2 activities in and around Vieques cause irreparable injury...

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