# Gonzalez-De-Blasini v. Family Department > Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · August 2, 2004 · 377 F.3d 81 URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9440147 ## Case - **Full name:** Migdalia GONZÁLEZ-DE-BLASINI, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. FAMILY DEPARTMENT, as an Agency of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Yolanda Zayas, Secretary of the Family Department in Her Official Capacity and Personal Capacity; Victor Maldonado, Human Resources Director, in His Official and Personal Capacity, Defendants, Appellees - **Court:** Court of Appeals for the First Circuit - **Decided:** August 2, 2004 - **Citations:** 377 F.3d 81; 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 15844; 2004 WL 1718349 - **Precedential status:** Published - **Opinion:** Concurrence by Boudin - **Judges:** Boudin, Torruella, Howard - **Cited by:** 180 later opinions in the Frix Law Library ## Citator (automated) - No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases. - Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9440147 ## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction) - holding that plaintiffs’ allegations that defendants “must have been aware of her political affiliation because she was a well-known supporter of the NPP in the community, had held a previous trust position under the NPP administration, and was allegedly demoted shortly after … - holding that claim that defendants were aware of plaintiffs political affiliation because she was a well-known NPP supporter in the community and held a trust position with the NPP administration was legally insufficient, to establish that defendants were aware of her affiliat… - holding that the fact that plaintiff was a well-known supporter of the opposing party, had held previous trust positions under said party’s administration, and that was allegedly demoted after they assumed power, was insufficient to show that defendants knew about her politica… - recognizing that a “ ‘prima facie case for political discrimination may be built on circumstantial evidence’ ” so long as plaintiffs have “generated ‘the specific facts necessary to take the asserted claim out of the realm of speculative, general allegations’ ” (quoting Kauffm… - recognizing that a prima facie political discrimination case may be built on circumstantial evidence if a plaintiff has shown “ ‘the specific facts necessary to take the asserted claim out of the realm of speculative, general allegations’ ” (quoting Kauffman v. P.R. Tel. Co., … ## Opinion text BOUDIN, Chief Judge, (Concurring in the judgment). The panel opinion persuades me that the grant of summary judgment should be sustained. But my reservations as to certain of the quotations from, and glosses upon, two prior decisions dealing with the issue of Spanish language documents under 48 U.S.C. § 864 (2000) are so firm as to preclude an unqualified concurrence in the panel opinion. --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9440147. Public record. Not legal advice.