Legal Opinion
Diaz-Carrasquillo v. Garcia-Padilla
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 16, 2014No. 13-2277PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
This is an interlocutory appeal from a preliminary injunction issued in favor of plaintiff Iván Diaz-Carrasquillo, who sued the Governor of Puerto Rico and other officials for attempting to oust him from his job as the Advocate for Persons with Disabilities in August 2013. The defendants argue that Diaz’s job was abolished by a legislative act. After review of the record and the relevant laws, we find that the injunction was improvidently granted and vacate the district court’s order. 1
I. Background
In 1985, the Puerto Rico Legislature passed Law 2, creating the Office of…
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