Legal Opinion

Ayala-Sepúlveda v. Municipality of San Germán

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided January 18, 2012No. 10-2123PublishedCited by 53 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-Appellant Luis Aik Ayala-Sepulveda (“Ayala”) appeals the district court’s award of summary judgment to his employer, the Municipality of San Germán, Puerto Rico (“San Germán” or “the City”), and to the mayor of San Germán, Isidro Negron-Irizarry (“Negron”), on his claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for sex discrimination and retaliation in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. We conclude that the district court’s award of summary judgment was proper. We therefore affirm the decision of the district court.

I. Background

A. Ayala’s…

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