Legal Opinion
Meléndez-García v. Sánchez
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 10, 2010No. 08-2530PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
On April 30, 2001, Segundo Meléndez-García (“Meléndez”), a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (“ROTC”) officer, was assaulted during a student protest on the University of Puerto Rico’s Río Piedras campus (“the UPR-RP campus”). Due to the university’s non-confrontation policy, Puerto Rico Police Department (“PRPD”) officers were unable to come to his aid. In April 2002, Meléndez sued various university officials pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging, among other things, that they had violated the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment by…
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