United States First Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case alleging political discrimination in termination from government employment is vacated where there was a credibility contest between plaintiffs' and defendants' accounts of the circumstances surrounding the terminations, and a reasonable fact-finder could conclude that plaintiffs had established that political discrimination was a substantial or motivating factor in the loss of their jobs.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/20/2006
• Published 09/20/2006

Judges

• LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, LYNCH, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Pablo Landrau Pirazzi, with whom Aldarondo & López Bras was on brief, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Héctor Benítez-Arraiza, with whom Francisco Ríos-Rivera and Llovet Zurinaga & López, P.S.C. were on brief, for appellees.