Legal Opinion
Ortiz Feliciano v. Toledo Davila
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 16, 1999No. 98-1961PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
In December 1994, the plaintiffs, all residents of Lajas, Puerto Rico, filed this civil action in the district court asserting claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Two of the plaintiffs are sisters and the gist of the complaint was that they had been wrongfully arrested at the apartment of one of the two; the co-plaintiffs were the husband of one of the sisters and the children of the other. The defendants were all individual police officers who participated in the arrests or were allegedly responsible for supervision of the officers directly involved.
Although Puerto Rico…
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