Legal Opinion
Hipolito Rodriguez Rodriguez v. Nicholas Munoz Munoz, Executive Director of A.D.T.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 18, 1986No. 85-1215PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff-appellee Hipólito Rodriguez Rodriguez brought an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the district court for the District of Puerto Rico claiming that his first amendment rights were violated when he was dismissed from the position of Regional Director in a Commonwealth of Puerto Rico agency because, allegedly, he planned to run for political office. Defendant in the action was Nicholas Munoz Munoz, the supervisor who had discharged him. The district court rejected Munoz’s qualified immunity defense, ruling that the law against discharge of a public…
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