MASSÓ-TORRELLAS v. MUNICIPALITY OF TOA ALTA

No. 16-1319.

845 F.3d 461 (2017)

Francisco José MASSÓ-TORRELLAS; Conjugal Partnership Massó-Estévez; José Francisco Massó-Torrellas; Conjugal Partnership Massó-Maldonado; Ossam Construction, Inc., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. MUNICIPALITY OF TOA ALTA; Clemente Agosto-Lugardo, in his official capacity as Mayor of the Municipality of Toa Alta and in his individual capacity; Yaritza Rosario-Soto; Conjugal Partnership Agosto-Rosario, Defendants, Appellees, Indetermined Number of Unnamed Municipal Police Officers; Indetermined Number of Jane Does; Conjugal Partnership; Richard Doe; John Doe; ABC Insurance Company, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

January 9, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roberto Busó-Aboy , for appellants.

Eduardo A. Vera Ramírez , with whom Landrón Vera, LLC., Eileen Landron Guardiola , and Luis A. Rodríguez Muñoz were on brief for appellees Municipality of Toa Alta and Clemente Agosto-Lugardo, in his official capacity as Mayor.

Margarita Mercado-Echegaray , Solicitor General, with whom Susana I. Peñagarícano-Brown , Assistant Solicitor General, was on brief for appellee Clemente Agosto-Lugardo, in his individual capacity.

Before Howard, Chief Judge, Torruella and Dyk, Circuit Judges.


Plaintiffs appeal from a district court order dismissing their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, and declining to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over related state law claims. We affirm the district court's dismissal. The district court found that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction because...

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