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CARRASQUILLO v. PUERTO RICO EX REL. JUSTICE DEPT.

No. 06-2284.

494 F.3d 1 (2007)

Marta CARRASQUILLO; Gilberto Rivera-Rivera; Conjugal Partnership Rivera-Carrasquillo, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Commonwealth of PUERTO RICO, THROUGH ITS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT; Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; Miguel Pereira-Castillo, Secretary and Administrator of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Corrections Administrator; Jorge L. Raíces, Assistant to the Secretary; Caridad Colón-Torres, Human Resources Officer; Rafael Santiago-Torres, Sub-Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; Norberto Jiménez-Burgos, Special Assistant to the Secretary and in his personal/individual capacity, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 28, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Yvette De Luna-Colón, for appellants.

Leticia Casalduc-Rabell, Assistant Solicitor General, with whom Salvador J. Antonetti-Stutts, Solicitor General, Mariana Negrón-Vargas, Deputy Solicitor General, and Maite D. Oronoz-Rodríguez, Deputy Solicitor General, were on brief, for appellees.

Before TORRUELLA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and STAFFORD, JR., Senior District Judge.

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Marta Carrasquillo, an employee at the Puerto Rico Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (the "DCR"), brought a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the DCR, and various DCR officials (collectively, "Defendants"), alleging political discrimination in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico granted summary judgment...

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