Legal Opinion
Ocasio-Hernandez v. Fortuno-Burset
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 20, 2015No. 13-1336PublishedCited by 152 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
In 2009, the plaintiffs — fourteen maintenance, domestic, and warehouse workers— embarked on a quest to seek some relief after being abruptly fired from the Puerto Rico executive mansion shortly after a newly elected governor took the helm. 1 The plaintiffs — to whom we’ll refer as “the workers” — sued then-Governor Luis Fortuño-Burset (“Fortuño”), his wife, and two executive staffers, alleging that they were terminated solely because they affiliated with Fortuño’s rival political parties. The firings, the workers have maintained, amounted to political discrimination…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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