ORTIZ-BONILLA v. FAPR

No. 12-1022.

734 F.3d 28 (2013)

Rafael ORTIZ-BONILLA; Luis J. Torres-Bauzá; Juan Martín Santa-Torres; Julio Guzmán-Freire; Cristóbal Vega-Adorno; Juan Javier Hernández-Lebrón, Plaintiffs, Appellants, Fernando Martínez-Buitrago, Plaintiff, v. FEDERACIÓN DE AJEDREZ DE PUERTO RICO, INC., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

August 21, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donato Rivera-de Jesús , for appellants.

Albéniz Couret-Fuentes , with whom Lee R. Sepulvado-Ramos , Jorge A. Galiber-Sánchez , and Sepulvado & Maldonado, PSC were on brief, for appellee.

Before TORRUELLA, HOWARD, and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.


THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.

In this case, we are called upon to referee a dispute between a group of chess players and their opponent, the Puerto Rico Chess Federation. Having come to a stalemate over events leading up to and during a chess federation meeting, the chess players filed suit against the federation in Puerto Rico Superior Court, alleging violations of their rights protected by the United States and Puerto Rico constitutions and Puerto Rico law. The chess...

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