DÍAZ-BÁEZ v. ALICEA-VASALLO

No. 19-1474.

22 F.4th 11 (2021)

María S. DÍAZ-BÁEZ; Víctor A. Burgos-Torres; Thelma L. Pérez-Guzmán; Marisol Domínguez-Rivera; Héctor J. Albelo-Cartagena; Mónica Molina-Salas; Ramón L. Rivera-Gascot; Sylvia Alvarado-Hernández; Pedro R. Martínez-Agosto; Carmen E. Medina-Adorno; Pedro I. Cartagena-Rodríguez; Eduardo Barreiro-Diaz; Melixa Marrero-González; Mercedes Lamberty-Román; Carlos A. Aquino-Valentín; Debbie A. Cardona-Capre; Diana I. Sánchez-Pagán; Félix Marrero-Vázquez; Gisselle Pagán-Meléndez; Shierly Cardona-Ortiz; Rosa M. Soto-García; Limari Martínez-Rodríguez; Mariel Torres-López; Antonio J. Collado-Rivera; Vivian M. Bracero-Rosa; Luis Coss-Vargas; Braulio E. Figueroa-Díaz; Rosa M. Santos-Carballo; Karolie Gómez-Rivera; Omar Rivera-Pérez; Claribel Rosado-Fernández; Iván E. González-García; José Grau-Ortiz; Brenda Martínez-Figueroa; Cirilo Tirado-Rivera; Betzaida Rosario-Félix; Virgilio Escobar-Quiñones; Luz Cristina Jiménez-Cortés; Héctor M. Barrios-Velázquez; Mónica Rodríguez-Ocasio; Daniel Ramos-Ramos; Carmen Haydeé Ramos-Luna; Melisa Rivera-Fuentes; Marieli Ríos-Pérez; Evelyn Velázquez-Adorno; José W. Ortiz-López; César E. Deida-Torres; David R. Sherman; Rebecca Cotto-Oyola; David Ponce-Mena; Natividad Curbello-Contreras; Virginia Echevarría; Pedro Félix-Torres; Ruth M. Meléndez-Rodríguez; Zuher Youssif-Yassin; Astrid M. Delgado-Irizarry; Tirso Rodríguez-Aponte; Yanira Rodríguez-Rivera; Vivian A. Hernández-Robles; Roberto Miranda-Santiago; Ada I. Rivera-García; José E. Figueroa-Nieves; Allan Wainwright-Estape; Daisy Rodríguez-Alejandro; Radamés Pérez-Rodríguez; María I. Delannoy-De-Jesús; Manuel R. Reyes Alfonso; Amarilis Rivero-Quiles; Luis Lagares-García; Rocío Rivera-Torres; Jonathan R. Ortiz-Serrano; Conjugal Partnership Albelo-Hernández; Conjugal Partnership Barreiro-Rosario; Conjugal Partnership Burgos-Díaz; Conjugal Partnership Cartagena-Medina; Conjugal Partnership Collado-Torres; Conjugal Partnership Coss-Bracero; Conjugal Partnership Félix-Echevarría; Conjugal Partnership Figueroa-Rivera; Conjugal Partnership Figueroa-Santos; Conjugal Partnership Grau-Vázquez; Conjugal Partnership Marrero-Pagán; Conjugal Partnership Martínez-Alvarado; Conjugal Partnership Miranda-Hernández; Conjugal Partnership Muler-Velázquez; Conjugal Partnership Ortiz-Acevedo; Conjugal Partnership Ponce-Cotto; Conjugal Partnership Ramos-Rodríguez; Conjugal Partnership Reyes-Delannoy; Conjugal Partnership Rodríguez-Rodríguez; Conjugal Partnership Rivera-Rosado; Conjugal Partnership Tirado-Martínez; Conjugal Partnership Lagares-Rivero, Plaintiffs, Appellants, Juana M. Contreras-Castro; Leila A. Hernández-Jiménez; Yelitza I. Hernández-Hernández; Yalitza Rosario-Menendez; Raquel Cardona-Soto; Maribel Alicea-Lugo; Humberto L. Muler-Santiago; Mariela Torres-Molini; Carmen Yolanda Vázquez-Ortiz; Luis A. Rodríguez-Toro; Nereida Rivera-Batista; Bernice Berberena-Maldonado; Ricardo Rosario-Sánchez; Axel Fresse-Álvarez; Gloriely Miranda-Ocasio; Luis A. Muler-Santiago; Gretchen M. Acevedo-Rivera; Domingo Mariani-Molini; Rebeca M. Negrón-Umpierre; Jorge Aparicio-Torres; Carmen E. Rodriguez-Santiago; Lynette Yambó-Mercado; Marianna Ramírez-Álvarez; Conjugal Partnership Fresse-Miranda; Conjugal Partnership Rosario-Berberena, Plaintiffs, v. Julio ALICEA-VASALLO, Executive Director of the AACA, in his official and personal capacities; Automobile Accident Compensation Administration, Defendants, Appellees, Maribel Concepción-Cantres, former Personnel Director of the AACA, in her official and personal capacities; ABC Insurance Company; Ernesto Rivera-Negrón; Richard Doe; Jane Roe; Jane Doe; John Doe; X Corporation; Y Corporation; DEF Insurance Company; Conjugal Partnership Alicea-Doe; Conjugal Partnership Doe-Concepción; Conjugal Partnership Rivera-Roe, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

December 23, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

José Enrico Valenzuela-Alvarado , with whom Valenzuela-Alvarado, LLC, Frank Zorrilla Maldonado , Frank Zorrilla Law Offices, Jesús Rabell Méndez , Rabell Méndez C.S.P., Manuel Porro-Vizcarra , and Manuel Porro-Vizcarra Law Offices were on brief, for appellants.

Adrián Sánchez-Pagán , with whom Sánchez-Betances, Sifre & Muñoz-Noya, LLC was on brief, for appellee Automobile Accident Compensation Administration.

Francisco J. Amundaray , with whom Amundaray, Villares & Associates, PSC was on brief, for appellee Julio Alicea-Vasallo.

Before Lynch, Thompson, and Kayatta, Circuit Judges.


Certain former Automobile Accident Compensation Administration ("AACA") employees appeal the entry of summary judgment against their political discrimination claims, in favor of the AACA and its former Executive Director, Julio Alicea-Vasallo. The employees were laid off pursuant to an agency-wide, facially neutral layoff plan...

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