APONTE-ROSARIO v. ACEVEDO-VILÁ

Nos. 09-1200, 09-1362.

617 F.3d 1 (2010)

Arcadio APONTE-ROSARIO, as Resident of Las Gladiolas Public Housing Project; Mirta Colón-Pellicier, as Resident of Las Gladiolas Public Housing Project; Iris Margarita Aponte-Marrero, as Resident of Las Gladiolas Public Housing Project, Plaintiffs, Appellants, Rossana De León-Rivera, as Resident of Las Gladiolas Public Housing Project; Luz Elena Ramos-Ayala, as Resident of Las Gladiolas Public Housing Project, Plaintiffs, v. Aníbal ACEVEDO-VILÁ, Governor of The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Jorge Rivera, Secretary of the Department of Housing of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Carlos Laboy, Director of the Puerto Rico Public Housing Administration, Defendants, Appellees, Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development; Michael Colón, Director, Field Office; Olga Sáez, Housing Director of the Office for the Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development; American Management, Inc., Defendants. Arcadio Aponte-Rosario, as Resident of Las Gladiolas Public Housing Project; Mirta Colón-Pellicier, as Resident of Las Gladiolas Public Housing Project; Iris Margarita Aponte-Marrero, as Resident of Las Gladiolas Public Housing Project, Plaintiffs, Appellants, Rossana De León-Rivera, as Resident of Las Gladiolas Public Housing Project; Luz Elena Ramos-Ayala, as Resident of Las Gladiolas Public Housing Project, Plaintiffs, v. Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development; Michael Colón, Director, Field Office; Olga Sáez, Housing Director of the Office for the Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Defendants, Appellees, Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá, Governor of The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Jorge Rivera, Secretary of the Department of Housing of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Carlos Laboy, Director of the Puerto Rico Public Housing Administration, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 28, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Myrta Morales-Cruz , for appellants.

Susana I. Peñagarícano-Brown , Assistant Solicitor General, with whom Irene S. Soroeta-Kodesh , Solicitor General, Leticia Casalduc-Rabell , Deputy Solicitor General, and Zaira Z. Girón-Anadón , Deputy Solicitor General, were on brief for appellees Acevedo-Vilá, Rivera, Laboy and American Management, Inc.

Patricia Sharing Flagg , Special Assistant United States Attorney, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, with whom Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez , United States Attorney, and Nelson Pérez-Sosa , Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Appellate Division, were on brief for appellees Jackson, Colón, and Sáez.

Before TORRUELLA, SELYA, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.


TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-Appellants, several residents of Las Gladiolas I and II public housing project (Las Gladiolas), appeal the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of several officers of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico Public Housing Administration (PRPHA) and the dismissal of their claims against the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).1 Appellants claim that in preparing...

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