United States First Circuit

District court ruling that the Puerto Rico public broadcasting station does not share the Commonwealth's Eleventh Amendment immunity is affirmed where the station did not demonstrate that the Commonwealth had structured it so as to share the Commonwealth's sovereignty, and there is no indication that the Commonwealth has bound itself to pay the station's debts.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/18/2006
• Published 08/18/2006

Judges

• HOWARD, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH and HOWARD, Circuit Judges, and STAFFORD, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Juan M. Frontera-Suau, on brief for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Pablo Landrau Pirazzi, with whom Aldarondo & López Bras was on brief, for appellees.