ROMANY v. COLEGIO DE ABOGADOS DE P.R.

Nos. 83-1586 to 83-1589.

742 F.2d 32 (1984)

Jorge F. ROMANY, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. COLEGIO DE ABOGADOS DE PUERTO RICO, Defendant, Appellant. Oreste Ramos DIAZ, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. COLEGIO DE ABOGADOS DE PUERTO RICO, Defendant, Appellant. Jorge SOUSS, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. COLEGIO DE ABOGADOS DE PUERTO RICO, Defendant, Appellant. Robert E. SCHNEIDER, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. COLEGIO DE ABOGADOS DE PUERTO RICO, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 23, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence H. Tribe, Cambridge, Mass., with whom Kathleen Sullivan, Boston, Mass., and Susan Estrich, Cambridge, Mass., were on brief, for defendant, appellant.

Marvin S. Cohen, Washington, D.C., with whom John M. Gibbons, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Washington, D.C., Robert E. Schneider, Washington, D.C., and Hector L. Marquez, San Juan, P.R., were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellees.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, WISDOM, Senior Circuit Judge, and BREYER, Circuit Judge.


LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.

This appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico brings before us for the second — and perhaps not the last — time a dispute over compelled membership in Puerto Rico's integrated bar. See In re the Justices of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, 695 F.2d 17 (1st Cir.1982). While we described many of the particulars in our earlier opinion, and while...

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