Legal Opinion
Acevedo-Garcia v. Vera-Monroig
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 17, 2000No. 99-1137PublishedCited by 140 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to consider claims of immunity from suit and liability raised by Roberto Vera-Monroig, the mayor of Adjuntas in Puerto Rico, Irma González, Adjuntas’s Director of Human Resources, and the municipality of Adjuntas in response to. a lawsuit filed by eighty-eight former and current employees of the municipality, all members of the New Progressive Party (“NPP”), in the wake of an election in November 1996. Alleging violations of their First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the plaintiffs fall into two groups: those…
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