Legal Opinion
Eduardo Zavala Santiago v. Alfredo Gonzalez Rivera
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 21, 1977No. 76-1034PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Chief Judge.
The sole issue presented in this case is whether the district court abused its discretion in dismissing plaintiffs suit for want of prosecution. On June 6, 1975, plaintiffs Eduardo Zavala Santiago and Juan A. Rivera Cosme, instituted an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in which they alleged that defendants, the mayor and municipality of Arecibo, had discharged them by reason of plaintiffs’ political activities on behalf of one element of the Popular party. The district court denied their request for a temporary restraining order, but because it believed that it was in the…
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