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BARCELO v. BROWN

Civ. Nos. 78-323, 78-377.

478 F.Supp. 646 (1979)

Carlos Romero BARCELO, Governor of Puerto Rico, et al., Plaintiffs, Carlos Zenon et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors, v. Harold BROWN et al., Defendants. Luis MEDINA et al., Plaintiffs, Fundacion Arqueologica, Antropologica E Historica De Puerto Rico, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. Harold BROWN et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico.

September 17, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miguel Gimenez Munoz, Secretary of Justice, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Gerardo A. Carlo, Special Counsel to the Governor, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, La Fortaleza, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Lewis A. Rivlin, John A. Hodges, Sanda M. Kayden, Peabody, Rivlin, Lambert & Meyers, Washington, D.C.; Timothy L. Harker, Washington, D.C.; Jorge L. Cordova, Charles R. Work, Collister Johnson, Theodore A. Miles, Washington, D.C. (of counsel), for plaintiffs Carlos Romero-Barcelo, Governor of Puerto Rico, et al.

Pedro J. Saade Llorens, Servicio Legales, Santurce, Puerto Rico, for plaintiffs-intervenors Zenon, et al.

Judith Berkan and Pedro J. Varela, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, for plaintiffs Medina, et al.

Wilfredo A. Geigel, Santurce, Puerto Rico, for plaintiff-intervenor Fundacion Arqueologica, Antropologica e Historica de Puerto Rico.

Julio Morales Sanchez, U.S. Atty., San Juan, P. R., for defendants.

DECISION AND ORDER

TORRUELLA, District Judge.

In substance, these suits concern the military use by the United States Navy of land which it owns in the Island of Vieques, a civilian municipality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. They bring into focus the delicate and complex constitutional interplay that exists between our three branches of Government, as well as between the Federal and local establishments and its citizens.

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