Israel Rodriguez Velazquez v. Beth Weinman

Israel Rodriguez Velazquez brought this action under Bivens v. Six Unknown Narcotics Agents, 403 U.S. 388, 91 S.Ct. 1999, 29 L.Ed.2d 619 (1971), against Federal Bureau of Prisons personnel claiming that they denied him the equal protection of the laws in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when they eliminated the Spanish language from the Residential Drug Abuse Program so that the Program would be delivered only in English. He also claimed that they denied him his First Amendment right to speak the official language of Puerto Rico. (Valazquez, who lived and resided in…