LOPEZ v. GARRIGA

No. 90-1422.

917 F.2d 63 (1990)

Celso LOPEZ, a/k/a Celso Lopez Lopez, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. R.D. GARRIGA, et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 17, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eduardo E. Toro Font, Asst. U.S. Atty., Bayamon, P.R. with whom Daniel F. Lopez Romo, U.S. Atty., Hato Rey, P.R., was on brief for defendants, appellants.

Charles S. Hey Maestre, Rio Piedras, P.R., with whom Celso E. Lopez Lopez, San Sebastian, P.R., was on brief for plaintiff, appellee.

David J. Vendler, with whom Bryan, Cave, McPheeters & McRoberts and Lenni B. Benson were on brief for National Immigration Project, National Lawyers Guild, amicus curiae.

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, VAN GRAAFEILAND, Senior Circuit Judge, and SELYA, Circuit Judge.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal marks the latest chapter in what has become a crusade: the unremitting effort of plaintiff-appellee Celso Lopez Lopez (Lopez), a native Puerto Rican, to eliminate, or at least curtail, the operations of certain checkpoints established by the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) at the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico.1

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