Legal Opinion

Gonzalez-Fuentes v. Molina

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided June 10, 2010No. 08-1818, 08-1819PublishedCited by 215 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

In 2005, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico determined that a number of individuals in its prison system had been unlawfully admitted into an electronic supervision program. Seeking to rectify the situation, Puerto Rico attempted to reincarcerate them. After one set of fourteen individuals had been reimprisoned, another set successfully brought a civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in federal district court to enjoin Puerto Rico from taking any action against them. Their reimprisoned counterparts then filed a federal habeas petition on identical grounds, which the…

2Cases cited87 opinions

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3Cited by215 opinions

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