Legal Opinion
Torres-Rosado v. Rotger-Sabat
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 2, 2003No. 02-2103PublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from entry of summary judgment against claims by a public employee that her superiors retaliated for her speech on a matter of public concern and terminated her employment without due process. Plaintiff Marta Torres-Rosado, an agent in the Puerto Rico Justice Department’s Special Investigations Bureau (SIB), claims that her superiors fired her because she wrote a confidential internal memorandum suggesting that the SIB’s investigation of an important politician might be “paralyzed” as part of a cover-up. She has since been reinstated, pursuant to a…
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