TORRES-MARTINEZ v. PUERTO RICO DEPT. OF CORRS.

No. 06-1881.

485 F.3d 19 (2007)

Teresa TORRES-MARTÍNEZ; Ismael Morales-Marrero; Conjugal Partnership Morales-Torres, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS; Miguel Pereira, as Administrator of the Puerto Rico Department of Corrections; Jaime López-Martínez; Lourdes Arce; Elvin Alicea-Irizarry, Defendants, Appellees, John Doe; Jane Doe, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 24, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rafael G. Martínez-Géigel, with whom Emilio E. Solé-De la Paz, was on brief, for appellants.

Salvador J. Antonetti-Stutts, Solicitor General, with whom Mariana Negrón-Vargas, Deputy Solicitor General, Maite D. Oronoz-Rodríguez, Deputy Solicitor General, and Susana I. Peñagarícano-Brown, Assistant Solicitor General, were on brief, for appellees.

Before TORRUELLA and LYNCH, Circuit Judges, and DiCLERICO, JR. District Judge.


TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Teresa Torres-Martínez ("Torres") sued Miguel Pereira (Administrator of the Puerto Rico Department of Corrections, "Pereira"), Jaime López (Regional Director of the Puerto Rico Department of Corrections, "López") and other Puerto Rico Department of Corrections ("PRDOC") personnel in their personal and official capacities (collectively, the "Defendants") for political discrimination and violations of her Fourteenth Amendment...

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