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TORRES-RIVERA v. GARCÍA-PADILLA

No. 14-1297.

783 F.3d 42 (2015)

Honorable Basilio TORRES-RIVERA, President of the Puerto Rico Industrial Commission, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Alejandro GARCÍA-PADILLA, individually and as Governor of Puerto Rico; Grace Sylvette Lozada-Crespo, individually and as Designated President of the Puerto Rico Industrial Commission, Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

April 6, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margarita L. Mercado-Echegaray, Solicitor General, Puerto Rico Department of Justice, with whom Susana I. Peñagarícano-Brown, Assistant Solicitor General, Puerto Rico Department of Justice, was on brief, for appellants.

Fredeswin Pérez-Caballero, with whom Pérez-Caballero Law Office was on brief, for appellee.

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

The government of Puerto Rico changed hands as a result of the November 2012 General Elections, and quickly passed laws to "reorganize" different agencies. Many of the officials displaced as a result brought suit, claiming political discrimination and due process violations. See Torres-Rivera v. Garcia-Padilla, No. 14...

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