SANTIAGO-DÍAZ v. RIVERA-RIVERA

No. 13-2180.

793 F.3d 195 (2015)

Víctor SANTIAGO-DÍAZ; Carmen Rivera-Santiago; Conjugal Partnership Santiago-Rivera, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Magaly RIVERA-RIVERA, in her individual and official capacity as Regional Director of the Bayamón School Region of the Department of Education of the Commonwealth of P.R.; Mirna López, in her individual and official capacity as Human Resources Director and Associate Secretary of Special Education of the Department of Education of the Commonwealth of P.R.; Glorimar Andújar, in her individual and official capacity as Associate Secretary of Special Education of the Department of Education of the Commonwealth of P.R.; María Ortiz-Mojica, in her individual and official capacity as Director of the Special Education Center in Bayamón, of the Department of Education of the Commonwealth of P.R., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

July 17, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julio César Alejandro-Serrano , on brief for appellants.

Susana I. Peñagarícano-Brown , Assistant Solicitor General, with whom Margarita L. Mercado-Echegaray , Solicitor General, were on brief, for appellees.

Before TORRUELLA, LIPEZ, and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.


Appellant Víctor Santiago-Díaz ("Santiago") claims that, as a result of his membership in the Popular Democratic Party ("PDP"), he was subject to impermissible political discrimination after the New Progressive Party ("NPP") came to power in Puerto Rico in January 2009. At the time of that transition, Santiago was...

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