MANGUAL v. ROTGER-SABAT

No. 02-1669.

317 F.3d 45 (2003)

Tomas De Jesus MANGUAL, Plaintiff, Appellant, Jorge Medina; Caribbean International News Corporation, Movants, Appellants, v. Angel E. ROTGER-SABAT, Secretary of Justice of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; John Doe, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 21, 2003.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied February 12, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Juan R. Marchand Quintero on brief for Appellants.

Roberto J. Sánchez Ramos and Camelia

Fernández Romeu, Office of the Solicitor General of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, on brief for Appellees.

Before LYNCH and HOWARD, Circuit Judges, and SHADUR, Senior District Judge.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied February 12, 2003.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

A newspaper reporter threatened with prosecution for articles he had published about government corruption brought suit in 1999 challenging the Puerto Rico criminal libel statute as unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Three other reporters, including one who had been prosecuted under the statute and another who had been threatened, sought to intervene on...

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