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SUEIRO VÁZQUEZ v. TORREGROSA DE LA ROSA

No. 06-1499.

494 F.3d 227 (2007)

Berenice R. SUEIRO VÁZQUEZ; Wilfredo Aponte Pagán, Plaintiffs, Appellants, Astrid A. Cappas Pérez; Delma Rosa Colón Rodríguez, Plaintiffs, v. Enid TORREGROSA DE LA ROSA, in her personal and official capacity as Executive Director of the State Historic Preservation Office; Elizabeth Sola; Verónica Álvarez; John Doe; Richard Roe, Defendants, Appellees, Francisco Cátala, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 19, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Neváres, with whom Carlos R. Ramírez and John F. Neváres & Associates, P.S.C. were on brief, for appellants.

Leticia Casalduc-Rabell, Assistant Solicitor General, with whom Salvador J. Antonetti-Stutts, Solicitor General, Mariana Negrón-Vargas, Deputy Solicitor General, and Maite D. Oronoz-Rodríguez, Deputy Solicitor General, were on brief, for appellees.

Before LYNCH, LIPEZ, and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

A jury found that a new Popular Democratic Party ("PDP") administration in Puerto Rico had violated the First Amendment political affiliation and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights of New Progressive Party ("NPP") members Berenice Sueiro Vázquez and Wilfredo Aponte Pagán when they were fired from their positions as employees in Puerto Rico's State Historic Preservation Office ("SHPO"). The jury also found that the firings violated...

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