Legal Opinion
Maldonado v. Fontanes
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 4, 2009No. 08-2211PublishedCited by 557 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
Residents of three public housing complexes brought a civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Mayor of Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, protesting the precipitous seizures and cruel killings of their pet cats and dogs. The twenty named plaintiff families assert violations of their Fourth Amendment rights to be free from unreasonable seizures of their “effects” and their Fourteenth Amendment procedural and substantive due process rights.
The pets were taken in two successive raids, within ten days of the Municipality of Barceloneta assuming control of the public housing…
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