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ZAVALA SANTIAGO v. GONZALEZ RIVERA

No. 76-1034.

553 F.2d 710 (1977)

Eduardo ZAVALA SANTIAGO et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Alfredo GONZALEZ RIVERA et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 21, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

German A. Gonzalez, Caguas, P. R., and Manuel E. Moraza Choisne, Hato Rey, P. R., on brief, for appellants.

Emeterio Maldonado Guzman, Arecibo, P. R., on brief for appellees.

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

COFFIN, Chief Judge.

The sole issue presented in this case is whether the district court abused its discretion in dismissing plaintiff's suit for want of prosecution. On June 6, 1975, plaintiffs Eduardo Zavala Santiago and Juan A. Rivera Cosme, instituted an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in which they alleged that defendants, the mayor and municipality of Arecibo, had discharged them by reason of plaintiffs' political activities on behalf of one element of the...

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