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SALDANA-SANCHEZ v. LOPEZ-GERENA

No. 00-1703.

256 F.3d 1 (2001)

Nilda M. SALDANA-SANCHEZ; Rafael Delgado-Mestre; Juan Nievessantiago; Miguel Ramos-Cruz; Sinforiano Castillo-Garcia; Julio C. Mojica-Ubiles; Miguel A. Ocasio-Santos; Margarita Poupart-Fontanez; Hilda Torres-Pena; Minerva Pachot-Rivera; Jose L. Ortiz-Ortiz; Zulma Rivera-Ortiz; Angel L. Rodriguez-Lazu; Luz R. Diaz-Morales; Jose L. Baez-Rodriguez; Jose Ivan Castillo-Ortiz, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Luz M. Ortiz-Quintana, Plaintiff, v. Julio Cesar LOPEZ-GERENA, Mayor of the Municipality of Humacao; Ramon Vega-Sosa, Defendants-Appellees, Margarita Gonzalez-Vazquez; Raul Ferrer, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 12, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Antonio Bauza-Torres for appellants.

James A. Toro, with whom Claudio Aliff Ortiz and Aldarondo & Lopez Bras, were on brief, for appellee Lopez-Gerena.

Irene S. Soroeta-Kodesh, with whom Gustavo A. Gelpi, Solicitor General, and Rosa N. Russe Garcia, Deputy Solicitor General, were on brief, for appellee Vega-Sosa.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge.

In this appeal we review the grant of a protective order in favor of defendant-appellee Julio Cesar Lopez-Gerena in his official capacity as mayor of the municipality of Humacao, Puerto Rico. Plaintiffs-appellants Nilda M. Saldana-Sanchez et al. (the "plaintiffs") sought discovery from Lopez-Gerena in order to bolster their claim that Humacao was obliged to satisfy a judgment for punitive damages awarded them in a § 1983 action against...

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