MULERO-CARRILLO v. ROMÁN-HERNÁNDEZ

No. 13-2267.

790 F.3d 99 (2015)

Omayra MULERO-CARRILLO; Agustín R. Benítez-Díaz; Lara Vázquez-Vázquez; Omar Guerrero-Díaz; Denise González-Santana; Yohanna Santana-Irizarry; Samir Crespo-Nieves; Omar A. Crespo-Nieves; Andy Meléndez-Zayas; José Daniel Cruz-González; Melissa Grafals-Pérez; Leonardo Cruz-Flores; Ángel I. Flores-Lugo; Rebeca Vera-Soto; Verónica López-Torres; Fernando Valentín-González; Carlos J. Santiago-Arocho; Maritere Babilonia; Gerard Beltre-Tavárez; Gerardo J. López-Cepero-Montes, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Alejandro ROMÁN-HERNÁNDEZ, individually and as President of the P.R. Medical Board of Licensure and Discipline; Victoriano Quintana; Agustín Vidal; Policeman Edwin Mejías; Dr. José Ibáñez; Juan González; Rafael Fernández; Miguel Talavera; P.R. Board of Medical Licensure & Discipline, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

June 17, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlos A. Del Valle-Cruz , with whom Armando Lamourt were on brief, for appellants.

Susana I. Peñagarícano-Brown , Assistant Solicitor General, with whom Margarita L. Mercado-Echegaray , Solicitor General, were on brief, for appellees.

Before TORRUELLA, THOMPSON, and BARRON, Circuit Judges.


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...

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