Legal Opinion
Whitfield v. Municipality of Fajardo
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 23, 2009No. 08-1004PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal compels us to wend our way through a tangled record, and leads us to an unexpected destination. Because the history of the case informs our decision, we start there.
The litigation that underlies this appeal had its genesis in an unspeakably tragic incident that occurred in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, on December 9, 2000. The grisly details are chronicled in an earlier opinion, see Whitfield v. Meléndez Rivera (Whitfield I), 431 F.3d 1, 3-5 (1st Cir.2005), and no useful purpose would be served by rehearsing them now. For present purposes, it suffices to say that a…
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- Catlin v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Forgay v. ConradSupreme Court of the United States · 1848
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- Hmg Property Investors, Inc. v. Parque Industrial Rio Canas, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1988
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