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DÍAZ-CARRASQUILLO v. GARCÍA-PADILLA

No. 13-2277.

750 F.3d 7 (2014)

Iván DÍAZ-CARRASQUILLO, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Alejandro GARCÍA-PADILLA, as Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

April 16, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margarita Mercado-Echegaray , Solicitor General, with whom Tanaira Padilla-Rodríguez , Deputy Solicitor General, were on brief, for appellant.

Jean Philip Gauthier Iñesta , with whom Jean Philip Gauthier Law Office, was on brief, for appellee.

Before TORRUELLA, HOWARD and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.

HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal from a preliminary injunction issued in favor of plaintiff Iván Díaz-Carrasquillo, who sued the Governor of Puerto Rico and other officials for attempting to oust him from his job as the Advocate for Persons with Disabilities in August 2013. The defendants argue that Díaz's job was abolished by a legislative act. After review of the record and the relevant laws, we find that the injunction was improvidently...

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