LOPEZ-GONZALEZ v. MUNICIPALITY OF COMERIO

No. 04-1633.

404 F.3d 548 (2005)

Lisandra LÓPEZ-GONZÁLEZ; Justina Ruíz-Rosa; Lydia M. Colón-López; Maria A. Carrucini-Reyes; Mirthelina Rodríguez-Ferrer; Awilda Rodríguez-Hernández; Elba D Rivera-Cruz; Marta E. Resto-Rivera; Edna L. Hernández-Del-Valle; Carmen T. Rivera-Román; Jorge A. Rosado-Santiago, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. MUNICIPALITY OF COMERÍO; José A. Santiago-Rivera, in his personal and official capacity; Juan L. Fontánez, in his personal and official capacity; Luz Haydee Santos, in her personal and official capacity; Antonio Santos, in his personal and official capacity, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 21, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francisco R. Gonzalez, for appellants.

Alicia M. Arana-Rivera, with whom Charlotten & Arana-Rivera, P.S.C., and Jorge Martinez-Luciano, Civil Rights Legal Task Force, Puerto Rico Department of Justice, were on brief for appellees.

Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.


CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-Appellants appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico dismissing as time-barred their § 1983 action. That action was a refiling of their prior identical action that had been involuntarily dismissed without prejudice as a sanction for plaintiffs' repeated failure to abide by the court's orders to proceed with various types of discovery. Plaintiffs insist that the dismissal...

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