Legal Opinion
Dinhora Quintero De Quintero v. Awilda Aponte-Roque
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 10, 1992No. 92-1227PublishedCited by 143 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico granting summary judgment in the defendants’ favor on qualified immunity grounds. Because the plaintiff has failed to show that the defendants’ actions violated any clearly established right assured by federal constitutional or statutory law, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
Plaintiff-appellant Dinhora Quintero de Quintero (Quintero), a citizen of Colombia, was hired on September 2, 1986 by the Department of Public Education (DPE) of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as a speech…
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