Legal Opinion
Pastrana-Torres v. Corporación De Puerto Rico Para La Difusión Pública
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 18, 2006No. 05-2298PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
This is an interlocutory appeal brought by the Corporación de Puerto Rico Para La Difusión Pública (WIPR), Puerto Rico’s public broadcasting company. WIPR challenges a district court ruling that it is not an arm of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and therefore does not share in the Commonwealth’s Eleventh Amendment immunity from suit in federal court. See U.S. Const. amend. XI. We affirm.
The plaintiffs are employees of WIPR who have filed a federal court action, seeking damages and declaratory relief, that alleges that WIPR took adverse employment actions against them in…
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