Legal Opinion
Velez-Rivera v. Agosto Alicea
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 10, 2006No. 04-2719PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs Iseut G. Vélez-Rivera (‘Velez”) and Fernando Peña-Castro (“Peña”) brought action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for injunctive relief and compensatory and punitive damages against defendants Juan Agosto-Alicea (“Agosto”) in his official and personal capacities, Alba Caballero-Fuentes (“Caballero”), Lilliam Jiménez-Montijo (“Jiménez”), and the Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico (“GDB”). 1 Plaintiffs allege that their employment with GDB was unlawfully terminated as a result of their political affiliation with the New Progressive Party (“NPP”), in violation…
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