United States First Circuit

In a Title VII suit by employees of the now-closed Puerto Rico National Processing Service Center (PR-NPSA) run by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), alleging that FEMA's actions in implementing a rotational staffing plan at the PR-NPSC and in eventually closing the facility discriminated against them on the basis of their Puerto Rican national origin and constituted unlawful retaliation for protected conduct, the district court's grant of summary judgment to defendants is affirmed where defendants had legitimate, nondiscriminatory reasons for their actions and, with respect to the rotational staffing plan retaliation claim, that plaintiffs had not shown a causal link between their protected conduct and the purported retaliation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/30/2015
• Published 07/30/2015

Judges

• Lynch

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel