Rodríguez-Vázquez v. López-Martínez

Before us we have defendant-appellants’ request for a stay pursuant to Fed. R.Civ.P. 62(f) of the monetary judgments against them. We issued a temporary stay and requested further briefing on quite difficult issues of Puerto Rico law, but only plaintiff-appellees have filed a brief in compliance with our request. We have concluded that, on the basis of the present record and the information presented to us, the stay request should be denied.

Our earlier decision in Acevedo-Garcia v. Vera-Monroig, 296 F.3d 13 (1st Cir.2002) (per curiam), would, standing alone, bar the stay, but we are satisfied…