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TORRES-TORRES v. PUERTO RICO

No. 03-2416.

353 F.3d 79 (2003)

Cesar TORRES-TORRES, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Commonwealth of PUERTO RICO, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 31, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pablo Landrau Pirazzi and Aldarondo & Lopez Bras on brief, for appellant.

Eileen Landron Guardiola, Eduardo A. Vera Ramirez, Annabelle Rodriguez, Secretary of Justice, Ivonne Palerm Cruz, Deputy Secretary of Justice in Charge of Litigation, and Landron & Vera, LLP. on brief, for appellee Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Pedro A. Delgado Hernandez on brief, for appellee State Elections Commission.

Before LYNCH, LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

This is a challenge to a Puerto Rican law, 21 P.R. Laws Ann. § 4101(f), that permanently disqualifies as a candidate for mayor any person who has been removed from public office for misconduct.1 Plaintiff Cesar Torres-Torres, a member of the New Progressive Party (NPP), seeks to run for mayor of the municipality of Juncos. Pursuant to § 4101(f), however, he has been barred...

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