Zayas Rodriguez v. Hernandez

OPINION AND ORDER

FUSTE, District Judge.

I

Introduction

We are once again faced with a case of alleged political discrimination in public sector employment following Puerto Rico’s 1984 general elections. In the case before us the plaintiffs are one present and one past employee of the Puerto Rico Highway Authority. 1 Both profess to being members of the Partido Nuevo Progresista (“PNP”), one of Puerto Rico’s two largest political parties. In the election of November 6, 1984, the PNP incumbent Governor, Carlos Romero Barceló, was defeated by Rafael Hernández Colón, the candidate of the Partido…