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ACEVEDO-DELGADO v. RIVERA

Nos. 01-1238, 01-1239.

292 F.3d 37 (2002)

Rosangelica Acevedo-Delgado, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Miguel A. RIVERA, Defendant, Appellant. Rosangelica Acevedo-Delgado, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Miguel A. Rivera, Manuel De J. Velez, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 4, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sigfredo Rodriguez-Isaac, Assistant Solicitor General, with whom Roberto J. Sanchez-Ramos, Solicitor General, and Vanessa Lugo-Flores, Deputy Solicitor General, were on brief, for Rivera and the Administration of Juvenile Institutions.

Judith Berkan, with whom Mary Jo Mendez and Berkan/Mendez were on brief, for Acevedo-Delgado.

Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Rosangélica Acevedo-Delgado ("Acevedo") was fired from her job as director of a government-operated group home for children in Puerto Rico after she refused to participate in a workplace fund-raising campaign for a school voucher system. Acevedo brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that she was discharged based on her political affiliation and her resistance to the fund raising, in violation of the First and Fourteenth...

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