Legal Opinion
Miguel A. Figueroa-Rodriguez v. Jorge L. Aquino, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 9, 1988No. 87-1512PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.
The plaintiff, Miguel A. Figueroa-Rodriguez, brought this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) against defendants, the Puerto Rico Commercial Development Company (“CDC” or “Company”), Jorge L. Aquino, a former Executive Director of the CDC, and Atilano Cordero Badillo, Puerto Rico’s Secretary of Commerce and the President of the CDC.1 Figueroa claimed, inter alia, that Aquino violated his rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments when he dismissed Figueroa from his position as Assistant Director of Administration of the CDC. Branti v. Finkel, 445…
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