Legal Opinion
Rosaura Building Corp. v. Municipality of Mayaguez
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 4, 2015No. 13-1676PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
Rosaura Building Corp. (“Rosaura”) brought this § 1983 claim based on an alleged deprivation of its First Amendment constitutional rights by the Municipality of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, and its mayor, the Honorable José G. Rodriguez (“Rodriguez” or the “Mayor”), after Rodriguez denied the corporation a government contract. Rosaura fails to allege what protected activity — if any — it exercised and was a substantial motivating factor in bringing about the Mayor’s purported retaliation, essential elements of its cause of action, and thus we affirm the summary judgment…
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