United States First Circuit
GOMEZ v. RODRIGUEZ, 02-1529, 02-1838, 02-2076, 02-2077
In a section 1983 action alleging that a politically discriminatory animus accounted for plaintiffs' sudden unemployment, combined effect of two errors by the district court requires a new trial, and the district court erred in failing to grant judgment as a matter of law to one defendant.
Appellate Information
- Decided 09/18/2003
- Published 09/18/2003
Judges
- SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and PONSOR, District Judge.
Court
- United States First Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Carlos A. Del Valle Cruz, with whom Anabelle Rodríguez, Secretary of Justice, and Ivonne Palerm Cruz, Deputy Secretary, were on brief, for individual capacity appellants., Ismael Rodríguez-Izquierdo for Municipality of Gurabo and official capacity appellants., Jorge Martinez Luciano, with whom Johanna M. Emmanuelli Huertas and Law Offices of Pedro E. Ortiz Alvarez, PSC were on brief, for Victor Rivera Hernández, Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Labor and Human Resources, amicus curiae.
- For Appellees:
- Pablo Landrau Pirazzi, with whom Eliezer Aldarondo Ortiz, Claudio Aliff Ortiz, Ivan Castro Ortiz, Simone Cataldi Malpica, and Aldarondo & Lopez Bras were on brief, for appellees.