NAVARRO-AYALA v. HERNANDEZ-COLON

No. 91-1600.

956 F.2d 348 (1992)

Roberto NAVARRO-AYALA, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Rafael HERNANDEZ-COLON, etc., et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 7, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maria Soledad Pineiro, San Juan, P.R., with whom Alice Net Carlo, Garcia Rodon, Correa Marquez & Valderas, Hato Rey, P.R., Jorge E. Perez Diaz, Sol. Gen., Anabelle Rodriguez, Deputy Sol. Gen., and Sylvia A. Cancio Bigas, Asst. Sol. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on brief for defendants, appellants.

Carlos V. Garcia Gutierrez, San Juan, P.R., with whom Armando Cardona Acaba, Puerto Rico Legal Services, Inc., Bayamon, P.R., and Luis M. Villaronga, San Juan, P.R., were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellees.

Before CAMPBELL and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK, Senior District Judge.


LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

This is the second appeal arising out of the district court's oversight of a 1977 settlement stipulation between officials of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and a class of mental patients at the Rio Piedras Psychiatric Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The lengthy history of this case was summarized in our opinion in the first appeal, see Roberto Navarro-Ayala, et al. v. Rafael Hernandez Colon, et al., 951...

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