Legal Opinion
Jorge Hiram Collazo Rivera v. Hon. Jaime Torres Gaztambide
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 25, 1987No. 86-1308PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-appellee Jorge Hiram Collazo Rivera filed a civil rights suit in district court alleging that defendants-appellants Cosme Hernandez Silva and Jaime Torres Gaztambide violated the first and fourteenth amendments when they dismissed plaintiff from his government position. The district court granted plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction, ordering that Collazo Rivera be reinstated. We reverse the grant of the preliminary injunction.
I. BACKGROUND
In June 1981 Collazo Rivera was appointed Utuado District Regional Director of the Rural Housing Administration…
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