Legal Opinion
Campos-Orrego v. Rivera
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 10, 1999No. 98-1318PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us, inter alia^, to address an important question as to the circumstances in which an award of punitive damages for a constitutional tort may endure without a corresponding award of compensatory damages.
The underlying litigation had its genesis in the employment of plaintiff-appellee Nora Campos-Orrego (Campos) with the Puerto Rico Comisión para los Asuntos de la Mujer (Women’s Rights Commission or Commission). Campos claims that defendants-appellants Alba Rivera, Olga Birriel Cardona, and Enid Gavilan Perez, her superiors at the Commission,…
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