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PASTRANA-TORRES v. CORPORACION DE PUERTO RICO

No. 05-2298.

460 F.3d 124 (2006)

Carmen D. PASTRANA-TORRES; Beatriz Rivera Cruz; Rene Rivera-Murillo, Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. CORPORACIÓN DE PUERTO RICO PARA LA DIFUSIÓN PÚBLICA, Defendant, Appellant, Myrna Yolanda Zabala-Carrion, in her personal capacity and in her official capacity as President of Corporacion de Puerto Rico para la Difusión Pública, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 18, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Juan M. Frontera-Suau, on brief for appellants.

Pablo Landrau Pirazzi, with whom Aldarondo & López Bras was on brief, for appellees.

Before LYNCH and HOWARD, Circuit Judges, and STAFFORD, Senior District Judge.

HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal brought by the Corporación de Puerto Rico Para La Difusión Pública (WIPR), Puerto Rico's public broadcasting company. WIPR challenges a district court ruling that it is not an arm of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and therefore does not share in the Commonwealth's Eleventh Amendment immunity from suit in federal court. See U.S. Const. amend. XI. We affirm.

The plaintiffs are employees...

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