Legal Opinion
Partido Nuevo Progresista v. Hernandez Colon
District Court, D. Puerto Rico
Decided March 26, 1976No. Civ. 75-619PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
We are called upon to decide the constitutionality of certain provisions of Act No. 24 of May 22, 1975 (16 LPRA 2089) of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. This statute is an amendment to the Commonwealth’s Electoral Code (16 LPRA 2001 et seq.). In deciding this issue we must weigh the rights of freedom of speech and association in counterbalance to the police power of the state to regulate its electoral processes.
On June 5, 1975, Plaintiff Partido Nuevo Progresista (hereinafter called “Plaintiff PNP”) and several individual Plaintiffs, 1 filed an action claiming that the mentioned…
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