Legal Opinion
Perez-Guzman v. Commonwealth of PR
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 9, 2003No. 03-1621, 03-1622PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
In Puerto Rico, organizations that seek to be recognized as political parties must gather roughly 100,000 endorsing petitions, each signed by a registered voter and sworn to before a notary public. Since only a lawyer can become a notary in Puerto Rico, there are fewer than 8,000 notaries in the entire commonwealth — and notarial services do not come cheap. Chafing under these restrictions, a nascent political party — the Partido Acción Civil (the Party) — challenged various aspects of the law, including the lawyer-notarization requirement, in the local courts. The Party…
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