United States First Circuit

In an employment discrimination case premised on a claim of political connivance wherein the district court used its equitable powers to augment the verdict and refused to allow the affected public corporation-defendant to intervene in post-verdict proceedings, judgment is partially, affirmed, vacated, reversed, and remanded where: 1) the district court erroneously concluded that the intervention motion was untimely; 2) the district court erred in imposing liability for retroactive retirement and Social Security contributions upon defendants in their individual capacities; and 3) the district court ruling on the issue of reinstatement is subject to revisiting.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/05/2008
• Published 06/05/2008

Judges

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

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Eyck O. Lugo-Rivera, with whom Lauracelis Roques-Arroyo and Martínez Odell & Calabria, were on brief, for putative intervenor., Claudio Aliff-Ortiz, with whom Michael Craig McCall, Eliezer Aldarondo-Ortiz, Sheila Torres-Delgado, and Aldarondo & López Bras, were on brief, for plaintiffs.


• 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 defendants.