United States First Circuit

Plaintiffs' claim of wrongful employment termination, based on their political beliefs, is dismissed where political affiliation is a permissible criterion for holding the positions at issue and plaintiffs' lacked any constitutionally protected property interest in those positions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/10/2004
• Published 11/10/2004

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nydia Gonzalez Ortiz, with whom Santiago & Gonzalez was on brief for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Teresa M. Seda Ramos, with whom Sánchez Betances & Sifre, P.S.C. was on brief, for appellees.