ACEVEDO-GARCIA v. MONROIG

Nos. 02-1139, 02-1340, 02-1465.

351 F.3d 547 (2003)

Luis A. ACEVEDO-GARCIA, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees/Cross-Appellants, v. Roberto Vera MONROIG, Individually and as Mayor of Adjuntas; Municipality of Adjuntas; Irma M. Gonzalez Delgado, Individually and as Personnel Director of Adjuntas, Defendants, Appellants/Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 5, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Johanna M. Emmanuelli-Huertas, with whom Jorge Martinez Luciano and Law Offices of Pedro A. Ortiz Alvarez were on brief for the Municipality of Adjuntas.

Luis Villares Sarmiento, with whom Yahaida Zabala, and Sanchez, Betances & Sifre, were on brief for Appellants/Cross-Appellees Vera and Gonzalez in their individual capacities.

Gael Mahony, with whom Israel Roldan-Gonzalez, Stuart Svonkin, Erica Templeton, Michael E. Liftik, and Hill & Barlow were on brief for Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.


LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

This complex political discrimination case was filed by eighty-two plaintiffs terminated from career employment positions with the municipality of Adjuntas in Puerto Rico. The district court severed the plaintiffs into four groups — three groups of twenty and one group of twenty-two — and the claims of the first twenty plaintiffs are now before us on defendants' appeal from a substantial verdict for plaintiffs. Although this case...

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