United States First Circuit

Summary judgment for defendant in an action in which plaintiff alleges First and Fourteenth Amendment violations and seeks compensatory and punitive damages under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 over the rescission of a bid award for a potential, but unexecuted, insurance brokerage contract with the Puerto Rico government, is: 1) affirmed in part, as to the district court's grant of summary judgment on plaintiff's Fourteenth Amendment due process claim; but 2) reversed in part and remanded, as to the grant of summary judgment on his First Amendment claim for political discrimination.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/01/2014
• Published 08/01/2014

Judges

• TORRUELLA

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel