Legal Opinion
Costa-Urena v. Segarra
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 22, 2009No. 07-2739PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
In 2001, Antonio Costa-Urena (“Costa-Urena”), Luis Jirau (“Jirau”), and Carlos Rueda (“Rueda”) were terminated from career positions that they held with the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, an agency of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. These terminations prompted them to sue various Commonwealth officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that their terminations violated both the First Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Their spouses, also plaintiffs in the action, sought to recover derivatively for these violations under Article 1802 of the…
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