MUNOZ VARGAS v. ROMERO BARCELO

No. 75-1040.

532 F.2d 765 (1976)

Manuel MUNOZ VARGAS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Carlos ROMERO BARCELO, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 26, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Luis Munoz Rivera and Jose R. Lebron-Velazquez, Hato Rey, P.R., on brief, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Harvey B. Nachman and Nachman, Feldstein & Gelpi, San Juan, P.R., on brief, for defendant-appellee.

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


ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs appellants, as former Municipal Inspectors had, by virtue of an ordinance of the City of San Juan, Puerto Rico, tenure in employment in positions whose activities could be found to be chiefly political, and to cost the taxpayers an amount substantially out of proportion to the benefits received. Defendant, Carlos Romero Barcelo, campaigned for mayor of San Juan on a platform one of whose planks was the abolishing of these...

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