GARCÍA-RUBIERA v. FORTUÑO

No. 10-2507.

665 F.3d 261 (2011)

Gladys GARCÍA-RUBIERA; Domingo A. Corporan-Suárez; Adalberto Rodríguez; Lourdes Matos; José R. Maldonado; José Pérez-Canabal; Manuel Molina-Godínez; David Castro; Adalberto Avilés; Jorge Plard; Laura Plard-Ocasio; Ginova Toro-Morales; Noemí Valentín-Marrero, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Luis G. FORTUÑO, Governor; Juan Carlos Puig-Morales, Treasury Secretary, Defendants, Appellees, Juan Antonio Flores-Galarza; Sila María Calderón, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 2, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.J. Amadeo Murga , for appellants.

Miguel A. Rangel-Rosas , with whom Angel E. Rotger-Sabat , and Maymí, Rivera & Rotger, P.S.C., were on brief, for appellees.

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


LYNCH, Chief Judge.

At stake in this case are the due process rights of privately-insured motor vehicle owners in Puerto Rico to over $100 million in insurance payments, which have been collected by the Commonwealth, and are owed back as reimbursement to these vehicle owners, but which have not been repaid and have been used instead for the Commonwealth's general budget.

Puerto Rico law requires all motor vehicle owners to pay for compulsory, state-issued...

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