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PUERTO RICANS FOR PUERTO RICO PARTY v. DALMAU

No. 07-2700.

544 F.3d 58 (2008)

PUERTO RICANS FOR PUERTO RICO PARTY; Nelson Rosario-Rodríguez, Electoral Commissioner of the Puerto Ricans for Puerto Rico Party, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Juan DALMAU, Electoral Commissioner of the Puerto Rican Independence Party; Puerto Rican Independence Party; Gerardo Cruz-Maldonado, Electoral Commissioner of the Popular Democratic Party; Edwin Mundo-Rios, Electoral Commissioner of the New Progressive Party; Ramón E. Gómez-Colón, President of the Commonwealth Elections Commission; Walter Vélez, Secretary of the Commonwealth Elections Commission, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 6, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Juan José Nolla Acosta, with whom Nelson Rosario-Rodríguez, was on brief, for appellants.

Jorge Martínez-Luciano, for appellee Gerardo Cruz-Maldonado, and Ramon L. Walker-Merino, for appellee Walter Vélez, with whom Law Offices of Pedro Ortiz Alvarez, PSC, was on brief.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, SELYA, Circuit Judge, and SCHWARZER, District Judge.

LYNCH, Chief Judge.

This suit alleges abuse and uneven application of certain electoral processes in Puerto Rico. The plaintiffs are the Puerto Ricans for Puerto Rico Party, now a recognized party in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and its Electoral Commissioner, Nelson Rosario-Rodríguez (collectively, "PPR" or "plaintiffs"). In September 2007, they brought suit in federal court under, inter alia, 42 U.S.C § 1983 against the Puerto Rico Commonwealth Electoral...

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