Legal Opinion
Perez Acevedo v. Rivero Cubano
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 12, 2008No. 06-2633PublishedCited by 265 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
The appellants, who are poultry farmers, sued the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and two Commonwealth officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The farmers’ suit claimed that the defendants denied them certain benefits, in violation of their due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The plaintiffs also presented claims under Puerto Rico law, which were joined under supplemental jurisdiction. The magistrate judge dismissed the claims. We affirm.
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Plaintiffs Félix Pérez-Acevedo and Iris Yolanda-Quiñones operate Don Manuel Poultry Farm, a farm…
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