Legal Opinion
United States v. Figueroa-Arenas
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 6, 2002No. 01-2149PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The efforts of a number of persons to halt the Navy’s use of the island of Vie-ques for bombing and other live-fire exercises sometimes have gone beyond what the law permits. These excesses, and the federal courts’ necessary involvement in bringing lawbreakers to account, have spawned considerable public controversy. This appeal stems from an incident related to that controversy. In it, the appellant, attorney Adalina De Jesús-Morales, asks us to annul sanctions imposed against her by the district court in the course of a Vieques protest case. As the recent history of…
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