United States First Circuit

A jury verdict, awards of damages, and a reinstatement order for plaintiffs-employees are affirmed in all respects in a political discrimination civil rights case brought by employees laid off in a governmental reogranization initiated by a new mayoral administration in Puerto Rico.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/06/2006
• Published 02/06/2006

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• José J. Sánchez Vélez and Rafael A. Robles Díaz, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Department of Justice, Civil Rights Legal Task Force, with whom Yldefonso López Morales and O'Neill & Borges Law Firm were on brief, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Claudio Aliff-Ortiz, with whom Pablo Landrau Pirazzi and Aldarondo & López Bras were on brief, for appellees.