KERCADO-MELENDEZ v. APONTE-ROQUE

No. 86-1853.

829 F.2d 255 (1987)

Ipcia M. KERCADO-MELENDEZ, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Awilda APONTE-ROQUE, etc., Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 22, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlos Del Valle, with whom Hector Rivera Cruz, Secretary of Justice, Ramirez & Ramirez and Marcos A. Ramirez Irrizarry, Hato Rey, P.R., were on brief, for defendant, appellant.

Hector Gonzalez Lopez, with whom Hector Urgell Cuebas and Pedro Miranda Corrada, San Juan, P.R., were on brief, for plaintiff, appellee.

Before BOWNES and BREYER, Circuit Judges, and CAFFREY, Senior District Judge.


BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant Awilda Aponte-Roque, Secretary of the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) in Puerto Rico, appeals a judgment entered against her in a section 1983 suit brought by plaintiff-appellee Ipcia M. Kercado-Melendez. Kercado had alleged that she was fired from her position as superintendent of the Dorado School District because of her political affiliation with the Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP). The United States District Court...

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