CASIANO-MONTAÑEZ v. STATE INS. FUND CORP.

No. 12-1453.

707 F.3d 124 (2013)

Nancy CASIANO-MONTAÑEZ; Miguel A. Reyes-Vargas; Javier Torres-González; Raquel Villegas-Rosa; Wilma J. Rosa-Méndez; Leticia Santiago-Reyes; Gloria D. Soto-Maldonado; Nexaida Custodio; Juana Torres-Escribano; Rosaura Reyes-Ramos; Migdalia Espino-Pitre; Felicita Otero-Barbosa, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. STATE INSURANCE FUND CORPORATION ("SIFC"); Zoimé Álvarez-Rubio; Saúl Rivera-Rivera; Conjugal Partnership Rivera-Doe; Jorge García-Ortiz; Conjugal Partnership García-Doe; Ernesto Santiago-Sayas; Conjugal Partnership Santiago-Doe, Defendants, Appellees José Ignacio Cobián; Conjugal Partnership Cobián-Álvarez, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

February 7, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Celina Romany , with whom Celina Romany Law Offices was on brief, for appellants.

Susana I. Peñagarícano-Brown , Assistant Solicitor General, with whom Luis R. Román-Negrón , Solicitor General of Puerto Rico, was on brief, for personal capacity appellees.

Pedro A. Delgado Hernández , Yadhira M. Rodríguez Quiñones and O'Neill & Borges LLC on brief for appellee SIFC and for official capacity appellees.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, SELYA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.


HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants are twelve dismissed or demoted employees of the State Insurance Fund Corporation ("Corporation"), a public corporation in Puerto Rico that administers the Commonwealth's workers' compensation program. They sued the Corporation and several of its officers in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, alleging political discrimination and due process violations stemming from adverse employment actions...

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