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CORTES QUINONES v. JIMENEZ NETTLESHIP

No. 84-2014.

773 F.2d 10 (1985)

Guillermina CORTES QUINONES and Alberto Almodovar Medina, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Charles JIMENEZ NETTLESHIP, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 13, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jose E. Fernandez-Sein, Santurce, P.R., with whom Law Offices of Nachman & Fernandez-Sein, Santurce, P.R., was on brief for appellants.

Americo Serra, Acting Sol. Gen., and Reina Colon De Rodriguez, Asst. Sol. Gen., San Juan, P.R., was on brief for appellees.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, BOWNES, Circuit Judge, and VAN DUSEN, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM.

Decedent, William Arena Cortes, an inmate at the Arecibo District Jail in Puerto Rico, was killed by other inmates of the jail on January 8, 1982. The plaintiffs in the action are Guillermina Cortes Quinones, the mother of the decedent, and Alberto Almodovar Medina, her husband. Plaintiffs brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against three defendants, each of whom is an official in the Puerto Rico prison system: Charles Jimenez Nettleship, Administrator...

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