United States First Circuit

The district court's summary denial of preliminary injunctive relief preventing the firing of plaintiff cannot stand, where the plaintiff still must be accorded the opportunity to argue that her dismissal on this ground was a pretext for political discrimination.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/25/2003
• Published 11/25/2003

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roberto Busó-Aboy, with whom Victor Miranda-Corrada was on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Celina Romany, with whom Juan M. Frontera Suau was on brief, for appellee Rivera-Hernandez., Sylvia Roger-Stefani, Assistant Solicitor General, with whom Roberto J. Sánchez Ramos, Solicitor General, and Héctor Clemente Delgado, Interim Deputy Solicitor General, were on brief, for remaining appellees.