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ACEVEDO-GARCIA v. VERA-MONROIG

Nos. 03-2103, 03-2292.

368 F.3d 49 (2004)

Luis A. ACEVEDO-GARCIA et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, 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.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 19, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jorge Martinez Luciano, with whom Johanna Emmanuelli and Law Offices of Pedro Ortiz Álvaraz, P.S.C. were on brief, for the Municipality of Adjuntas and the individual appellants in their official capacities.

Luis Villares Sarmiento, with whom Sanchez-Betances & Sifre, P.S.C. was on brief, for the individual appellants in their personal capacities.

Gael Mahony, with whom Pamela O'Brien, Holland & Knight LLP and Israel Roldan-Gonzalez were on brief, for appellees.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge; COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge; and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

In these appeals, we address the willful and longstanding efforts of a Puerto Rico municipality, its mayor, and its personnel director to obstruct and delay the payment of a $6.9 million jury award in a civil rights case. This is the fourth time this case has come before this court.1

In November 2001, a jury awarded verdicts totaling $6,956,400 against the Municipality of Adjuntas in Puerto Rico (the Town...

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