Legal Opinion
Simonne Elwood and Cheryl A. Pimental v. Ronald Pina and Lucia Cardoso
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 31, 1987No. 85-1630PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs-appellants were clerical employees at the District Attorney’s office in Bristol County, Massachusetts. They instituted a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against the district attorney, Pina, and against his administrative assistant, Cardoso, contending that they were fired from their positions either for not supporting Pina’s re-election campaign or because they supported his political opponents. The case was tried both under the first and fourteenth amendments, and under the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act, Mass.Gen.L. ch. 12, §§ 11H, 111 (1979). 1 A jury returned a…
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