ACOSTA-OROZCO v. RODRIGUEZ-de-RIVERA

No. 97-1489.

132 F.3d 97 (1997)

Nylsa ACOSTA-OROZCO, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Carmen RODRIGUEZ-DE-RIVERA, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 22, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Manuel Alvarado, San Juan, PR, for appellants.

Roxanna Badillo-Rodriguez, Assistant Solicitor General, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Catano, PR, with whom Carlos Lugo-Fiol, Solicitor General of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, and Edda Serrano-Blasini, Deputy Solicitor General, Guaynabo, PR, were on brief, for appellees.

Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, CYR, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.


LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

This is another in a series of cases following the assumption of power by the New Progressive Party (NPP) in Puerto Rico in elections held in November 1992. In these cases, plaintiffs are government employees who are members of the losing Popular Democratic Party (PDP) who assert that they were terminated or demoted from their jobs because of their political affiliation.1...

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