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RAMOS-PINERO v. COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO

No. 05-1797.

453 F.3d 48 (2006)

Maria RAMOS-PIÑERO, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 30, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicolas Nogueras-Cartagena on brief for appellants.

Salvador J. Antonnetti-Stutts, Solicitor General; Mariana Negrón-Vargas, Deputy Solicitor General; Maite D. Oronoz Rodríguez, Deputy Solicitor General; and Leticia Casalduc-Rabell, Assistant Solicitor General, on brief for appellees Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Department of Transportation and Public Works.

Francisco J. Amundaray on brief for appellee Municipality of San Juan.

Luis G. Martinez Llorens on brief for appellee Pep Boys-Manny, Moe & Jack of Puerto Rico, Inc.

Before SELYA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and SAYLOR, District Judge.

SAYLOR, District Judge.

This appeal arises out of the tragic death of a fourteen-year-old boy who fell into an open manhole. The plaintiffs, mostly relatives of the boy, sought damages from various governmental and private defendants under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state tort law.1 The district court dismissed the federal law claims on grounds of Eleventh Amendment immunity and for failure to state a claim, and declined to exercise its...

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