United States First Circuit

Summary judgment for the Puerto Rico Secretary of Education in a suit alleging retaliation in violation of the Rehabilitation Act is affirmed where there was insufficient evidence of retaliatory animus to warrant a trial, and plaintiffs could demonstrate no possible prejudice as a result of the court's sua sponte grant of summary judgment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/05/2007
• Published 01/05/2007

Judges

• HOWARD, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Manuel A. Rodríguez Banchs with whom Nora Vargas Acosta, De Jesús, Hey & Vargas, and Sheila I. Vélez Martínez were on brief, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Leticia Casalduc-Rabell, Assistant Solicitor General, with whom Salvador J. Antonetti-Stutts, Solicitor General, Mariana Negrón-Vargas, Deputy Solicitor General and Maite D. Oronoz Rodríguez, Deputy Solicitor General, were on brief, for appellees.