Legal Opinion
Rodriguez-Garcia v. Miranda-Marin
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 21, 2010No. 08-2319, 08-2320PublishedCited by 158 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Carmen Rodríguez-García, a career employee of the Municipality of Caguas, brought suit against Mayor William Miranda-Marin, Vice Mayor Wilfredo Puig, and the municipality, alleging violations of the First Amendment and Puerto Rico law. She claimed, inter alia, that she was transferred from her position in the Public Works Department (“Public Works”) 1 to the Office of Federal Funds (“Federal Funds”) in retaliation for testimony she gave before the Puerto Rico Government Ethics Office. In a prior appeal, we affirmed a jury verdict in favor of Puig, but remanded for a new…
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