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RAMIREZ v. SANCHEZ RAMOS

No. 05-1798.

438 F.3d 92 (2006)

Miriam J. RAMÍREZ, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Roberto SÁNCHEZ RAMOS, in his Capacity as Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 21, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Roman, with whom José Luis Ubarri and Brown & Ubarri were on brief, for appellant.

Eduardo Vera Ramírez, with whom Roberto Sánchez Ramos, Secretary of Justice, Salvador Antonetti Stutts, Solicitor General, Eileen Landrón Guardiola, Courtney R. Carroll, and Landrón & Vera, LLP were on brief, for appellee.

Before SELYA, LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Following her failed efforts to force an agency of the Puerto Rican government to display the American flag in its central office, plaintiff-appellant Miriam J. Ramírez found herself on the wrong end of criminal charges brought pursuant to the Riot Act, P.R. Laws Ann. tit. 33, § 4522. Claiming that the Riot Act impermissibly infringed her First Amendment right to political expression and that the party in power was using it as a tool...

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