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BURGOS-YANTÍN v. MUNICIPALITY OF JUANA DÍAZ

No. 14-1359.

909 F.3d 1 (2018)

Carmen D. BURGOS-YANTÍN, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. MUNICIPALITY OF JUANA DÍAZ, et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

November 19, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jorge Martínez-Luciano , San Juan, PR, with whom Emil Rodríguez-Escudero , Ponce, PR, and Martínez-Luciano & Rodríguez-Escudero Law Office were on brief, for appellant.

José R. Olmo-Rodríguez for appellee.

Margarita L. Mercado Echegaray , Solicitor General, and Susana I. Peñagarícano-Brown , Assistant Solicitor General, Department of Justice, on brief for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, amicus curiae.

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

This appeal arises from the district court's exercise of ancillary jurisdiction to enforce a resolution, issued by the Puerto Rico Secretary of Justice, directing the Municipality of Juana Díaz to indemnify two municipal police officers found liable under Puerto Rico tort law after a federal jury trial for using excessive force resulting...

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