Legal Opinion
Torres-Rivera v. García-Padilla
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 6, 2015No. 14-1297PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
The government of Puerto Rico changed hands as a result of the November 2012 General Elections, and quickly passed laws to “reorganize” different agencies. Many of the officials displaced as a result brought suit, claiming political discrimination and due process violations. See Torres-Rivera v. Garciar-Padilla, No. 14-1040, 2014 WL 357172, at *1 n. 2 (D.P.R. Jan. 31, 2014) (listing cases).
This is an interlocutory appeal from one of those cases. It concerns the change effected by Law 180-2013, which explicitly made the position of the Chair of the Puerto Rico Industrial…
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Wal-Mart Puerto Rico, Inc. v. Zaragoza-GomezCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2016
- Torres-Lopez v. Garcia-PadillaDistrict Court, D. Puerto Rico · 2016
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- Jiménez-Marcial v. Garcia-PadillaDistrict Court, D. Puerto Rico · 2015