Rivera Valiente v. Benítez

Rafael Rivera Valiente filed in the district court a petition for mandamus against Jaime Benitez, Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico, to compel him to restore Rivera to his post as a member of the faculty of the University of Puerto Rico. The Chancellor filed a motion which prayed in the alternative for dismissal or summary judgment. The lower court entered a summary judgment in favor of the Chancellor from which Rivera has appealed to this Court.

The first assignment is that the district court erred in holding that there was no genuine issue as to any material fact in this case and…