MUNICIPALITY OF SAN JUAN v. PUERTO RICO

No. 18-1783.

919 F.3d 565 (2019)

MUNICIPALITY OF SAN JUAN; Toa Alta Comprehensive Urban/Rural Advanced Health Services, Inc.; Rio Grande Community Health Center, Inc., Plaintiffs, Migrant Health Center, Inc.; Corp. de Servicios Integrales de Salud Integral de la Montana, Inc.; Morovis Community Health Center, Inc.; Corporacion de Servicios de Salud y Medicina Avanzada, Inc. (COSSMA); HealthproMed Foundation, Inc., f/k/a Dr. Jose S. Belaval, Inc.; Concilio de Salud Integral de Loiza, Inc. (CSILO); NeoMed Center, Inc., f/k/a Gurabo Community Health Center, Inc.; Ciales Primary Health Care Services, Inc.; Corporacion de Serv. Medicos Primarios y Prevencion de Hatillo, Inc.; Costa Salud, Inc., f/k/a Rincon Health Center, Inc.; Camuy Health Services, Inc.; Atlantic Medical Center, Inc.; Centro de Salud Familiar Dr. Julio Palmieri Ferri, Inc.; Hospital General Castanar, Inc.; El Centro de Servicios Primarios de Salud de Patillas, Inc.; El Centro de Salud de Lares, Inc., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Commonwealth of PUERTO RICO, Defendant, Appellant, Department of Health of Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Department of Health and Human Services; Rafael Rodriguez-Mercado, Secretary of the Department of Health for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Alex Michael Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

March 21, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlos Lugo-Fiol , with whom Isaías Sánchez-Báez , Solicitor General of Puerto Rico, was on brief, for appellant.

James L. Feldesman , with whom Nicole M. Bacon , Khatareh S. Ghiladi , and Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP, Washington, DC, were on brief, for appellees Atlantic Medical Center, Inc., Camuy Health Services, Inc., Centro de Salud Familiar Dr. Julio Palmieri Ferri, Inc., Ciales Primary Health Care Services, Inc., Corp. de Serv. Médicos Primarios y Prevención de Hatillo, Inc., Costa Salud, Inc., Centro de Salud de Lares, Inc., Centro de Servicios Primarios de Salud de Patillas, Inc., and Hospital General Castañer, Inc.

Robert A. Graham , with whom Iyen A. Acosta and Reno & Cavanaugh PLLC, Washington, DC, were on brief, for appellees HealthproMed, Salud Integral en la Montaña, Migrant Health Center, COSSMA, Morovis Community Health Center, NeoMed Center, and Concilio de Salud Integral de Loiza.

Before Lynch, Thompson, and Barron, Circuit Judges.


This appeal concerns the automatic stay provision of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act ("PROMESA"), see 48 U.S.C. §§ 2101-2241, a statute that Congress enacted in June 2016 to address the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico's financial crisis. The question presented...

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