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SINDICATO PUERTORRIQUEÑO v. FORTUÑO

No. 12-2171.

699 F.3d 1 (2012)

SINDICATO PUERTORRIQUEÑO DE TRABAJADORES, SEIU Local 1996, Unión General de Trabajadores de Puerto Rico, SEIU Local 1199; Service Employees International Union; Alianza SEIU Puerto Rico, Inc., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Luis FORTUÑO, in his official capacity as Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Public Service Commission of Puerto Rico; Laudelino F. Mulero Clas, in his official capacity as President of the Public Service Commission; Office of the Electoral Comptroller; Manuel A. Torres Nieves, in his official capacity as Electoral Comptroller, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 19, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremiah A. Collins , with whom Mark Schneider , Alvin Velazquez , John M. West , Kimberly M. Sánchez Ocasio , Nora Vargas Acosta and Manuel A. Rodríguez Banchs were on brief, for appellants.

Claudio Aliff-Ortiz , with whom Eliezer Aldarondo-Ortiz , Michael C. McCall , and Eliezer A. Aldarondo-López were on brief, for appellees Public Service Commission of Puerto Rico, Luis G. Fortuño-Burset and Laudelino F. Mulero-Clas, and with whom Carlos Enrique Cardona-Fernández was on brief, for appellees Office of the Electoral Comptroller and Manuel Torres-Nieves.

Before TORRUELLA, LIPEZ, and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

In this appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction, plaintiff labor unions claim that Sections 6.007-.010 of Law 222, Puerto Rico's campaign finance law, place an unconstitutional burden on the unions' First Amendment right to engage in political speech. Despite the gravity of plaintiffs' claims and months of procedural wrangling, including two writs of mandamus from this court to the district court directing it to rule on plaintiffs' motion for...

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