Legal Opinion
Garcia-Monagas v. Garcia-Ramirez de Arellano
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 16, 2012No. 09-1460PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is the latest chapter in a long-running intra-family dispute over property in Puerto Rico. Attempting to secure this property, siblings Jorge, Diego and Giselda Garcia-Monagas have previously filed multiple lawsuits in the Puerto Rico Commonwealth courts. In each of these actions, the siblings, appellants here, advanced the same basic claim: under Puerto Rico inheritance law they were the rightful owners of the property. Each action was resolved against them.
Undeterred, the appellants filed this action in federal district court in Puerto Rico. They again…
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