COSTA-URENA v. SEGARRA

No. 07-2739.

590 F.3d 18 (2009)

Antonio COSTA-URENA, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Milton SEGARRA, et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 22, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Antonio Sagardia De Jesus, Secretary of Justice, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Landrón & Vera, LLP., Eileen Landrón Guardiola and Eduardo A. Vera Ramirez, on brief for appellants.

Marie Elsie López-Adames and González-López & López-Adames, on brief for appellees.

Before HOWARD, RIPPLE and SELYA, Circuit Judges.


HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

In 2001, Antonio Costa-Urena ("Costa-Urena"), Luis Jirau ("Jirau"), and Carlos Rueda ("Rueda") were terminated from career positions that they held with the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, an agency of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. These terminations prompted them to sue various Commonwealth officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that their terminations violated both the First Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment...

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