Mora v. Superior Court of Puerto Rico

Mr. Justice Negrón Fernández,

dissenting.

This case has ceased to be one wherein rights of property are litigated to become one wherein rights of liberty are asserted. This is none the less a reality because, in order to protect the latter rights, the former may have to-be acknowledged. The practical usefulness of the present remedy has been confined to an examination of the merits of the attack by petitioners on Order 228 issued on March-12, *4301953 by the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce of Puerto Rico, and to its effects on many criminal prosecutions now pending against them in the…