SOLDEVILA v. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE OF U. S.

No. 74-1347.

512 F.2d 427 (1975)

Manuel SOLDEVILA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE OF the UNITED STATES of America, etc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 13, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carla A. Hills, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, Julio Morales Sanchez, U. S. Atty., San Juan, P. R., William Kanter and Robert S. Greenspan, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., App. Section, Washington, D. C., on brief for defendants-appellants.

Blas C. Herrero, Jr., Jose M. Herrero, Herrero & Herrero, Hato Rey, P. R., and John L. A. De Passalacqua, Hato Rey, P. R., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, McENTEE and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Chief Judge.

In 1972, the appellee was appointed State Director of the Farmers Home Administration for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture. It is conceded that in the same year the appellee made available to his subordinates, federal employees, banquet tickets, to be sold at fifty dollars each, the proceeds to be donated to the campaign of Mr. Justo Mendez, a member of the New Progressive Party who was...

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