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GONZÁLEZ-DROZ v. GONZÁLEZ-COLÓN

No. 10-1881.

660 F.3d 1 (2011)

Dr. Efraín GONZÁLEZ-DROZ et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Dr. Luis R. GONZÁLEZ-COLÓN et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 16, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roberto Ariel Fernández-Quiles , for appellants.

Peter A. Gaido , with whom Gaido & Fintzen were on brief, for American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, amicus curiae.

Gloria Robison-Guarch , Assistant Solicitor General, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, with whom Irene Soroeta-Kodesh , Solicitor General, Leticia Casalduc-Rabell and Zaira Giron-Anadon , Deputy Solicitors General, were on brief, for appellees.

Before BOUDIN, SELYA and DYK, Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

For many years, all licensed physicians in Puerto Rico could perform cosmetic surgery.1 The landscape changed in 2005, when the Puerto Rico Board of Medical Examiners (the Board) promulgated a first-in-the-nation regulation that limited the practice of cosmetic medicine to particular classes of medical specialists. In due course, the Board enforced the regulation against a physician who, though generally licensed...

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