Legal Opinion
Cortés-Rivera v. Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 16, 2010No. 09-1858PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
Enrique Cortés-Rivera, a doctor, appeals from a grant of summary judgment entered by the district court on his claim that his contract to provide medical services was illegally terminated. CortésRivera worked as an independent contractor in Puerto Rico’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DOCR) between 2002 and 2007. He alleges that DOCR and its managing corporation, the Correctional Health Services Corporation (CHSC), discriminated and retaliated against him on the basis of disability in violation of Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section…
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