TORRES v. PUERTO RICO

No. 06-1771.

485 F.3d 5 (2007)

Digno E. TORRES et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Commonwealth of PUERTO RICO et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 4, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julio Cesar Alejandro Serrano, with whom Roberto Sanchez Ramos, Secretary of Justice, Salvador Antonetti Stutts, Solicitor General, Leticia Casalduc, Auxiliary Solicitor General, Landrón & Vera, LLP, Eileen Landrón Guardiola, Eduardo Vera Ramírez, and Luis A. Rodríguez Muñoz were on brief, for appellants.

Jenyfer García-Soto, with whom Delgado & Fernandez, L.L.P. was on brief, for appellees.

Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.


SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge.

In this case, the district court eschewed any evaluation of the merits of a potentially dispositive pretrial motion asserting sovereign and qualified immunity, instead denying the motion because it had been filed beyond a clearly communicated deadline. This interlocutory appeal ensued. After careful consideration, we conclude that we have jurisdiction to entertain this appeal but that the district court acted within the encincture of its...

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