Legal Opinion
Rodriguez v. Municipality of San Juan
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 20, 2011No. 09-1769PublishedCited by 210 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
PRELUDE
As Ricardo Rios tells it, his professional life as a purchasing officer for the municipality of San Juan became a nightmare when Jorge Santini became San Juan’s mayor in 2001. Rios is an ardent supporter of the Popular Democratic Party (PDP). Santini belongs to a rival political party, the New Progressive Party (NPP). .So does Zenaida Diaz, Rios’s one-time supervisor. Santini, Diaz, and other NPP operatives there pursued a purely political vendetta against him, Rios says, doing things like diminishing his responsibilities, paying him less than similarly situated…
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