Aponte-Ramos v. Alvarez-Rubio, No. 14-1050 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CasePlaintiffs, current and previous employees of the Puerto Rico State Insurance Fund Corporation (SIFC), filed two similar lawsuits alleging that Defendants, the SIFC and its administrators, selectively enforced Puerto Rico’s merit principle against them in violation of the Equal Protection Clause. The district courts granted summary judgment to Defendants, concluding that Plaintiffs failed to identify similarly situated individuals treated differently by Defendants. The First Circuit affirmed on the same basis, holding that Plaintiffs’ Equal Protection claims failed as a matter of law because Plaintiffs failed to identify employees of a similar category that were similarly situated but who were treated differently by Defendants.
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