TORRES RIVERA v. CALDERON SERRA

No. 04-2352.

412 F.3d 205 (2005)

Basilio TORRES-RIVERA et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Sila María CALDERÓN-SERRA et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 14, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fernando L. Gallardo and Antonio Borrés-Otero, with whom Woods & Woods LLP was on brief, for appellants.

Luis Sánchez-Betances, with whom Gerardo De Jesús Annoni and Sánchez-Betances & Sifre, P.S.C. were on brief, for appellees.

Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, BALDOCK, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.


LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

The basic question posed by this action is whether political association rights under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States act as a check on a legislature enacting a statute reorganizing an administrative agency and a check on the executive who signed and then implemented the law. Here, the legislature of Puerto Rico reorganized the Industrial Commission by reducing the number of Commissioners who hear workers' compensation...

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