Legal Opinion
Rodriguez-Reyes v. Molina-Rodriguez
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 22, 2013No. 12-1647PublishedCited by 584 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
We confront today a script that has become all too familiar in Puerto Rico: employees of a government agency decry as political discrimination adverse employment actions taken in the wake of an election that produced a regime change. The court below ruled, among other things, that the complaint failed to state a claim for relief because it did not assert facts sufficient to establish a prima facie case of political discrimination.
The prima facie case is an evidentiary model, not a pleading standard. For this reason, the interaction between the prima facie case and the…
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