Legal Opinion
Watchtower Bible & Tract Society of New York, Inc. v. Municipality of San Juan
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 20, 2014No. 13-1605, 13-1718, 13-1719PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Unlike other jurisdictions, Puerto Rico allows private citizens to maintain gated residential communities that incorporate public streets. This unorthodox configuration produces an awkward amalgam of the public and private sectors, which makes the task of applying traditional First Amendment jurisprudence something of an adventure. A predictable result is the sort of dissonance that is apparent here.
This ten-year-old litigation is no stranger to this court. See Watchtower Bible & Tract Soc’y of N.Y., Inc. v. Sagardía De Jesús (Watchtower I), 634 F.3d 3 (1st Cir.), reh’g…
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