Case: Individual Employment Rights/Political Affiliation (D.P.R.)

A Puerto Rico federal district court denied a motion to dismiss First Amendment political discrimination claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 brought by a female human resources director for the Head Start program who was a member of the New Progressive Party, finding that she plausibly alleged that the Head Start program director and mayor of Aguadilla took adverse employment actions against her based on her political affiliation, and that the mayor wasn’t entitled to qualified immunity because a reasonable official would have known that not renewing her contract for political reasons violated her constitutional rights.

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