Legal Opinion
Rivera-Ramos v. Roman
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 29, 1998No. Nos. 98-1021, 98-1022, 98-1023PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
This is an interlocutory appeal arising out of a civil action brought in the district court. The individual defendants, present or former Puerto Rico officials, moved to dismiss on grounds of qualified immunity, and the district court denied their request. These appeals followed.
The present suit was brought in October 1993 by two individual plaintiffs — Carlos Rivera Ramos and Armando Rivera Tirado — and their company, Rivera & Rivera, Inc., which was in turn owned by both of them and by their fathers (who were brothers). According to the complaint, Rivera & Rivera owned…
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