Court Opinion

ID: 9447886
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 22:46:44.033814+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:13.423865
License: Public Domain

ALDRICH, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
The painstaking consideration the court has given to this case, the substance of which I have no quarrel with,, seems warranted only if it may have some dampening effect upon the persistent ingenuity of counsel in thinking up reasons why we should reach outrageous results. For myself, I would be content to say here that section 7237, the penalty clause, was in effect in Puerto Rico prior to the 1956 amendment of section 4774. Moreno Rios v. United States, 1 Cir., 1958, 256 F.2d 68. If that amendment, although it did not mention section 7237, by implication cast some shadow over it, by its act of removing the obstruction created by the amendment the Puerto Rico legislature must equally have removed the shadow. Beyond this, appellant is simply retraversing old ground.