Legal Opinion

Mulero-Carrillo v. Roman-Hernandez

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided June 17, 2015No. 13-2267PublishedCited by 69 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-Appellants are twenty graduates from medical schools outside of the United States who are ineligible to receive a medical license in Puerto Rico because they failed the Puerto Rico Medical Licensing Examination (the “PRMLE”). They challenge the validity of the PRMLE’s purportedly arbitrary passing score via this 42 .U.S.C. § 1983 action, alleging that Defendants-Appellees — the Puerto Rico Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline (the “Board”) and eight of its officers (the “Officers,” and together with the Board, “Defendants”), in their official and…

2Cases cited36 opinions

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