DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION v. WORLD BOXING ASS'N

Nos. 90-2166 to 90-2168.

942 F.2d 84 (1991)

DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND SPORTS OF PUERTO RICO, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. WORLD BOXING ASSOCIATION, et al., Defendants, Appellees. Julio GERVACIO LIND, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. WORLD BOXING ASSOCIATION, et al., Julio GERVACIO, et al., Defendants, Appellants. Julio GERVACIO LIND, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. WORLD BOXING ASSOCIATION, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 21, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anabelle Rodriguez, Asst. Sol. Gen., with whom Jorge E. Perez Diaz, Sol. Gen., Guaynabo, P.R., was on brief for Dept. of Recreation and Sports of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico Boxing Com'n.

James J. Binns, with whom Conrad O'Brien Gellman DeStefano & Rohn, P.C., Philadelphia, Pa., Morris M. Goldings, and Mahoney, Hawkes & Goldings, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for The World Boxing Ass'n., F. Gilberto Mendoza and James J. Binns.

Before CAMPBELL and SELYA, Circuit Judges, and COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.


COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.

The instant appeal arises from the district court's grant of summary judgment to the World Boxing Association ("WBA") on the consolidated diversity claims of a boxer, Julio Gervacio Lind, and his managers and promoter ("Gervacio" or "the Gervacio plaintiffs") and the Puerto Rico Professional Boxing Commission and the Department of Recreation and Sports of Puerto Rico (collectively, "the Commission...

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