User:Stapler80/Leo El Marinero

Leonardo Ramos-Hernandez "Leo El Marinero" was born on March 25th 1970. Was raised in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico. As self taught pro se litigant, has challenged Government acts in courts. In the late '90s he filed multiple lawsuits agaisnt government agencies for due process violations. In 1998 he won a Mandamus against the Puerto Rico Telecomunications Board. He challenged the Constitutionality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Status Plebiscite of 1998. Supported the bi-cameral system on the Puerto Rican unicameralism referendum, 2005; but also challenged its constitutionality. Ran for City Mayor of Caguas Puerto Rico as succesor to the deceased William Miranda Marin on the August 10th 2010 Special Primary of the Popular Democratic Party.

School Years
After 3 years of being a nuisance to his teachers at El Porton School, Barranquitas for consistently finishing 1 hour tests in less than 20 minutes only to spend the remainder of the hour annoying the present, the school faculty decided to have him skip the 4th grade. But concerned about the possibility of bullying on the frail child, they postponed the switch for two months while preparing the receiving fifth grade students to be his mentors and protectors. The day of the actual switch he was placed on the English class the review day for the first exam. He failed the exam the next day.

In summer 1982, at age 12, he entered the Resource Center for Science and Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus. There he was trained in physics, biology, and computers. The Center had a Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (B.A.S.I.C.) laboratory operating an array of TRS-80 model III computers where the young Ramos-Hernandez was first introduced to computer programming. Subsequently, his parents bought him a cassette based TRS-80 Model III at which he mastered his computational foundation. Three years later, in summer 1985, he returned to the Resource Center for Science and Engineering. This time was at the Rio Piedras Campus. He was trained in geology and marine biology.

In 1986 he graduated from the Residential Center of Educative Opportunities of Mayagüez. He is also considered by his peers as member of both, the 1986 and 1987 classes of Escuela Superior Vocacional Barranquitas, PR. He attended the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez program of Computer Science within the Math Department until he transferred to New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in fall of 1988. Leonardo Ramos-Hernandez graduated in 1994 from Alfred University with a BA in Computer Science. He has been a member of the International_Society_of_Electrochemistry.

The 1990's
Leonardo Ramos-Hernandez worked as a Communications Advisor at the Office of Management and Budget of Puerto Rico in 1994 and 1995. Thereafter he enrolled at the School of Nursing at University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo but did not finish the program.

He filed several civil rights lawsuits in state superior court for violation of due process. These were mostly dismissed based on sovereign immunity. He did obtain a Writ of Mandamus against the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Regulatory Board in 1998. He had filed a complaint agaisnt Puerto Rico Telephone Co. but since the Regulatory Board was in its infancy at the time, Regulatory Board ignored the complaint and refused to rule on it. The Regulatory Board advised Ramos-Hernandez to file a new complaint under then instituted procedures created after the complaint was first filed. The court sided with Ramos-Hernandez and ordered the Regulatory Board to resolved the complaint. The Regulatory Board never complied with the Mandamus. Ramos-Hernandez did not pursue further enforcement of the court order.

The 1998 Plebiscite
In 1998, the Puerto Rico legislature authorized the execution of a Status Plebiscite. There was controversy about the ballot options from the outset. The legislature opted for placing an unprecedented non-severability clause that stated that no one would cast a vote for anything other than the spelled options and if declared unconstitutional then event would be cancelled.

Ramos-Hernandez challenged the constitutionality of the plebiscite law claiming it violated his right under Constitution of Puerto Rico to cast a dissenting vote as recognized by the Puerto Rico Supreme Court on Sanchez-Vilella v ELA 143DPR445 (1993). He argued that there was no good reason to confine dissent to a negative "none of the above" vote. That the compelling state interest can be protected by recusing a "write-in" vote forcing the voter to defend it.

The Rosello administration used as policy the practice of waiving sovereign immunity to federal suit by removing all challenges to the plebiscite to federal court to prevent state courts from declaring the plebiscite unconstitutional under state law. Upon removal, Ramos-Hernandez moved to remand. Federal District Judged Salvador Casellas sided with Ramos-Hernandez and remanded to state court. Ramos-Hernandez moved for summary judgement on the constitutionality of the plebiscite.

On the morning the case was set for judgment the Rosello administration removed the case a second time preventing the state court from ruling. The Federal Clerk randomnly assigned the case to Federal District Judge Hector Lafitte who recused himself without stating any reasons. But rather than returning the case to the clerk for random assignment, Lafitte transfered the case to Federal District Judge Perez-Gimenez. Judge Perez-Gimenez did not rule on the case other than to assume jurisdiction. After the Plebiscite was executed, Perez Gimenez dismissed the case as moot.

Ramos-Hernandez initiated a hunger strike on the grounds of the Federal Court. After two weeks of