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CAMPOS-ORREGO v. RIVERA

No. 98-1318.

175 F.3d 89 (1999)

Nora CAMPOS-ORREGO, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Alba RIVERA, et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 4, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sylvia Roger Stefani, Assistant Solicitor General, Puerto Rico Dep't of Justice, with whom Carlos Lugo Fiol, Solicitor General, and Edda Serrano Blasini, Deputy Solicitor General, were on brief, for appellants.

Judith Berkan, with whom Mary Jo Mendez-Vilella was on brief, for appellee.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN and CYR, Senior Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal requires us, inter alia, to address an important question as to the circumstances in which an award of punitive damages for a constitutional tort may endure without a corresponding award of compensatory damages.

The underlying litigation had its genesis in the employment of plaintiff-appellee Nora Campos-Orrego (Campos) with the Puerto Rico Comision para los Asuntos de la Mujer (Women's Rights Commission or Commission...

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