of the Resolution has been fully adjudicated in the Puerto Rico courts). Depending upon the course of further proceedings in the two parallel actions, the necessity for such an appeal may be avoided. We need go no further. For the reasons elucidated above, we dismiss this appeal without prejudice, for want of appellate jurisdiction. Dismissed. 1 . The panel opinion speaks at one point of "reversing]” the verdicts, Whitfield I, 431 F.3d at 19, but the mandate references the '‘vacation]” of the verdicts. Given our disposition of this appeal, see text infra, we need not probe the significance (if any) of this discrepancy. 2 . Puerto Rico is deemed the functional equivalent of a state for the purposes of Rule 69(a). Cf. Goya Foods, Inc. v. Wallack Mgmt. Co., 290 F.3d 63, 70 (1st Cir.2002) (<HOLDING>). 3 . The plaintiffs base this objection on two
recognizing a similar exception to its rule with respect to corporations holding to the same effect holding to that effect with respect to rule 64 holding the same with respect to an apartment holding to like effect with respect to a standcommitted fine