Legal Opinion
Mendez-Matos v. Municipality of Guaynabo
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 24, 2009No. 07-2303 to 07-2305, 07-2433PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
The primary issue in this case involves an award of punitive damages by a Puerto Rico federal jury in an action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and the subsequent reduction of the award by the court. Plaintiff challenges the reduction of the award. Defendants challenge the award itself.
On November 26, 2004, Mayor Héctor O’Neill and the Guaynabo municipal police detained a construction crew working on the city’s new government center. Fran cisco Méndez-Ayala, supervisor of the crew, and Francisco Méndez-Matos, his father and the construction company’s owner, brought suit…
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