United States First Circuit

In an employment discrimination case brought by a former prosecutor of Puerto Rico, summary judgment and dismissal rulings for defendants are affirmed where plaintiff raised no genuine issue as to any material fact that would cause the court to doubt whether the plaintiff had a meaningful opportunity to participate in a pre-termination hearing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/24/2009
• Published 08/24/2009

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before Lynch, Chief Judge, Torruella, and Selya, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Israel Roldán-González, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rosa Elena Pérez-Agosto, Assistant Solicitor General, with whom Maite D. Oronoz-Rodríguez, Acting Solicitor General, and Ileana M. Oliver-Falero, Acting Deputy Solicitor General, were on brief for appellees Sánchez-Ramos, Goyco-Amador, Esteves de González and Sila María Calderón., Eliezer A. Aldarondo, with whom Eileen Landrón-Guardiola, Eduardo Vera-Ramírez, Luis A. Rodríguez-Muñoz, Landrón & Vera, LLP, Roberto J. Sánchez-Ramos, Secretary of Justice, and Maite Oronoz-Rodríguez, Acting Solicitor General, were on brief for appellee Hon. Anabelle Rodríguez.