Legal Opinion
Rodriguez-Cirilo v. Garcia
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 2, 1997No. 96-1306PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Chief Judge.
Plaintiffs-appellants are six family members, one of whom, Celso Rodriguez-Cirilo (“Celso”), was the victim of a stabbing. Cel-so was stabbed by his brother, Francisco Rodriguez-Cirilo (“Francisco”), who is not a party to the suit. The family members filed a civil rights damages action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1994) against two officers of the *51Puerto Rico Police Department alleging that the officers’ failure to enforce a temporary detention order against Francisco caused the injury to Celso and thus violated his constitutional rights.1
The district court held that…
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