Legal Opinion
His Excellency, Vincente Cuesnongle, O.P. v. Hector R. Ramos, Secretary of the Department of Consumer Affairs of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 30, 1987No. 85-1068PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Circuit Judge.
This litigation, commenced more than six years ago, comes before us now for the third time. Though only $217 dollars are actually at stake in the dispute, this case has been a crucible for testing the application of interacting doctrines guiding relations between federal and state courts. The procedural history of the litigation could have come straight from a textbook on federal jurisdiction; it has provided the opportunity to examine the current complexity and confusion of “our federalism” in the shadow of Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman, 465 U.S. 89,…
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