Legal Opinion
Fernando Vargas-Figueroa v. Jose M. Saldana, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 18, 1987No. 86-2014PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Circuit Judge.
In August 1986 the chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico’s medical sciences campus, Dr. Jose M. Saldana, and the dean of its medical school, Dr. Nydia de Jesus, removed the plaintiff, Dr. Fernando Vargas Figueroa, from his post as head of the physiology department and replaced him with Dr. Manuel Martinez Maldonado. Dr. Vargas then sued the chancellor and the dean (and Dr. Martinez), claiming under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that the chancellor and the dean had unlawfully removed him because of his political affiliation and national origin. After a hearing, the district…
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