United States First Circuit

In a suit by workers at a juvenile correctional facility alleging that they were denied promised positions, dismissal for failure to state a claim is affirmed where the plaintiffs' complaint failed to allege facts sufficient to establish they possessed a constitutionally protected property interest in the promised jobs.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/05/2007
• Published 12/05/2007

Judges

• BALDOCK, Senior Circuit Judge., Before LIPEZ, Circuit Judge, BALDOCK, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Julio Nigaglioni Arrache on brief for appellants.


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