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TORRENS v. LOCKHEED MARTIN SERVICES GROUP, INC.

No. 04-1275.

396 F.3d 468 (2005)

Peter TORRÉNS, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. LOCKHEED MARTIN SERVICES GROUP, INC., Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 7, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anabel Rodríguez-Alonso with whom Pedro Giner-Dapena and Schuster Usera & Aguiló LLP were on brief for appellant.

Mark B. Stern, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice, with whom Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, H.S. García, United States Attorney, and Johathan H. Levy, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice, were on brief for the United States of America, Amicus Curiae.

Mauricio Hernández-Arroyo with whom Law Offices of Mauricio Hernández-Arroyo, López-Lay Vizcarra & Simonet were on brief for appellees.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, HOWARD, Circuit Judge, and CARTER, Senior District Judge.

BOUDIN, Chief Judge.

The narrow but important question before us is whether certain property at U.S. Naval Station Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Rico is "federal enclave" property over which the federal government enjoys exclusive legislative jurisdiction (save as federal law may incorporate local law). The question, on which district court judges in Puerto Rico have now reached conflicting results, is buried in a private law suit, now a decade old.

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