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IGARTÚA v. U.S.

No. 09-2186.

626 F.3d 592 (2010)

Gregorio IGARTÚA, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 24, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregorio Igartúa for the appellants.

Claudio Aliff-Ortiz with whom Guillermo Somoza-Colombani , Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Irene Soroeta Kodesh , Solicitor General of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Eliezer Aldarondo-Ortiz , and Eliezer A. Aldarondo-López were on brief for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, amicus curiae.

Mark R. Freeman , Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice, with whom Tony West , Assistant Attorney General, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez , United States Attorney, and Michael Jay Singer , Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice, were on brief for appellees.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

LYNCH, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff Gregorio Igartúa and others have brought suit claiming they and other U.S. citizen-residents of Puerto Rico have a right to vote for a Representative to the U.S. House of Representatives from Puerto Rico and a right to have Representatives from Puerto Rico in that body. Long ago, residents of Puerto Rico were granted U.S. citizenship by statute. See Pub.L. No. 368, ch. 145, §...

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