Legal Opinion
Penalbert-Rosa v. Fortuno-Burset
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 28, 2011No. 09-2391, 10-1410PublishedCited by 282 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
María D. Peñalbert-Rosa was discharged from public employment in Puerto Rico in February 2009, shortly after the governorship of the Commonwealth changed hands from one political party to another. According to her later complaint, Peñalbert had been employed since 2006 as a receptionist in an office building annexed to the Puerto Rico governor’s executive mansion; from 1989 to 2006, she worked in a communications office within the same complex. Neither position, she asserts, entailed formulating policy or handling confidential information.
The new governor, Luis…
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