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RODRIGUEZ-MARIN v. RIVERA-GONZALEZ

No. 04-1492.

438 F.3d 72 (2006)

Mirla Mireya RODRÍGUEZ-MARÍN; Ana I. Escobar-Pabón, Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Víctor RIVERA-GONZÁLEZ, in his personal capacity and in his official capacity as Secretary of Corrections and Administrator of the Administration of Corrections of Puerto Rico; and Ana T. Dávila-Lao, in her personal capacity and in her official capacity as Counsel to the Administration of Corrections of Puerto Rico, Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 16, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Isabel M. Rodríguez-Casellas, with whom Sánchez Betances, Sifre, Muñoz-Noya & Rivera P.S.C. and Milagros del Carmen López, were on brief, for appellants.

Francisco R. González-Colón, with whom F.R. González Law Office, was on brief, for appellees.

Before TORRUELLA, LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs are employees of the Administration of Corrections in Puerto Rico. They filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that defendants demoted them in violation of their First Amendment and due process rights. The case went to trial, and a jury found in favor of plaintiffs, awarding them compensatory and punitive damages. Defendants now appeal. We affirm.

I. Background

Defendants are contesting the jury's verdict...

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