VILLANUEVA-MENDEZ v. NIEVES-VAZQUEZ

No. 05-1638.

440 F.3d 11 (2006)

Ángel VILLANUEVA-MÉNDEZ; Luz Iraida Hernández-Pérez; Conjugal Partnership Villanueva-Hernández, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Rámon L. NIEVES-VÁZQUEZ, in his personal capacity; Samuel González, in his personal capacity and in his official capacity as Deputy Executive Director of the National Parks Company, Defendants, Appellees. Edna Pérez-Toledo, in her personal capacity and in her official capacity as Assistant Superintendent of the National Parks Company; Sonia Cancel, in her personal capacity and in her official capacity as Director of Human Resources of the National Parks Company; Nilda Sotomayor, in her personal capacity and in her official capacity as Director of Administration of the National Parks Company. Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 1, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rafael A. Machargo, for appellants.

Irene S. Soroeta-Kodesh, Assistant Solicitor General, Department of Justice, with whom Salvador J. Antonetti-Stutts, Solicitor General, Mariana D. Negrón-Vargas, Deputy Solicitor General, and Maite D. Oronoz-Rodríguez, Deputy Solicitor General, were on brief for appellees Ramón Luis Nieves-Vázquez and Samuel González, in their personal capacities.

Luis R. Pérez-Guisti with whom Mignucci and Pérez-Giusti PSC was on brief for appellee Samuel González, in his official capacity.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, CYR, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.


BOUDIN, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the dismissal of a suit by Angel Villanueva-Mendez charging several officials of a Puerto Rico agency with demoting him for politically discriminatory reasons. Because the matter was resolved in the defendants' favor on summary judgment based on a statute of limitations defense, the facts are recited in the light most favorable to Villanueva. Morris v. Gov't Dev. Bank of P.R., 27 F.3d 746

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