United States First Circuit

In a First Amendment challenge to two Puerto Rico rules governing the purchase of school textbooks, judgment for plaintiffs is: 1) affirmed in part where the rules impinged upon schools' right to academic freedom and the restrictions were not narrowly tailored to further the government's legitimate state interest; but 2) reversed in part where disclosure requirements in one of the rules survived constitutional scrutiny because they were narrowly tailored to the state's significant interest in providing parents with information about the cost of private education.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/11/2007
• Published 04/11/2007

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Salvador J. Antonetti-Stutts, Solicitor General, with whom Mariana D. Negrón-Vargas, Deputy Solicitor General, and Irene S. Soroeta-Kodesh, Assistant Solicitor General, were on brief, for appellant., Alexander E. Dreier, with whom H. Christopher Bartolomucci, Sarah M. Berger, Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., Debra P. Wilson, Legal Counsel, National Association of Independent Schools, on brief, as amici curiae for the National Association of Independent Schools and the Council for American Private Education.


• For Appellees:
  
• Antonio J. Amadeo-Murga, for appellees.