Leonard J. Silver v. Juan Antonio Garcia, Commissioner

BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

This action presents a constitutional challenge to a Puerto Rican statute which requires applicants for an insurance consultant’s license to have resided in Puerto Rico for one year prior to application. The plaintiffs below, Leonard J. Silver and Alvin E. Mangold, were denied insurance consultants’ licenses on the basis of this residency requirement, and brought suit against the Commissioner of Insurance and Secretary of Justice of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico claiming that the residency requirement abridged the privileges and immunities of citizenship guaranteed in…