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CUESNONGLE v. RAMOS

No. 85-1068.

835 F.2d 1486 (1987)

His Excellency, Vincente CUESNONGLE, O.P., et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Hector R. RAMOS, Secretary of the Department of Consumer Affairs of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 30, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Luis R. Davila-Colon, Hato Rey, P.R., with whom Juan M. Garcia Passalacqua and Iraelia Pernas-Davila, San Juan, P.R., were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Luis Roberto Pinero, Hato Rey, P.R., Frank Zorrilla Maldonado, San Juan, P.R., and Ruben T. Nigaglioni, Hato Rey, P.R., were on brief for Asociacion de Colegios y Universidad Privada de Puerto Rico, Inc., amicus curiae.

Mejore Rivera Rodriguez with whom Americo Serra, Acting Sol. Gen., San Juan, P.R., was on brief, for defendant, appellee.

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

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

This litigation, commenced more than six years ago, comes before us now for the third time. Though only $217 dollars are actually at stake in the dispute, this case has been a crucible for testing the application of interacting doctrines guiding relations between federal and state courts. The procedural history of the litigation could have come straight from a textbook on federal jurisdiction; it has provided the opportunity to examine the current...

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