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GONZÁLEZ-FUENTES v. MOLINA

Nos. 08-1818, 08-1819.

607 F.3d 864 (2010)

Efraín GONZÁLEZ-FUENTES, et al., Petitioners, Appellees, v. Hon. Carlos MOLINA, Secretary of Corrections and Rehabilitation of Puerto Rico and Administrator of Corrections of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Respondent, Appellant. Carmen Rivera-Feliciano, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Hon. Luis Fortuno Burset, Governor of Puerto Rico; Hon. Roberto Sanchez-Ramos, Secretary of Justice of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Hon. Carlos Molina, Secretary of Corrections and Rehabilitation of Puerto Rico and Administrator of Corrections of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Hon. Jose R. Lozada, Director of the Bureau of Special Investigations of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 10, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susana I. Peñagarícano-Brown, Puerto Rico Department of Justice, with whom Roberto J. Sanchez Ramos, Secretary of Justice, Ileana M. Oliver-Falero, Acting Solicitor General, and Carlos A. Del Valle Cruz, Special Counsel, were on brief, for appellants.

Guillermo Ramos Luiña, with whom Carlos V. García Gutiérrez, Alejandra Bird Lopez and Rafael E. Rodríguez Rivera, were on brief, for appellees.

Before HOWARD, SELYA and EBEL Circuit Judges.

HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

In 2005, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico determined that a number of individuals in its prison system had been unlawfully admitted into an electronic supervision program. Seeking to rectify the situation, Puerto Rico attempted to reincarcerate them. After one set of fourteen individuals had been reimprisoned, another set successfully brought a civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in federal district court to enjoin Puerto Rico from...

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