No. 24-6475

Charlene A. Greene-Rodriguez v. Puerto Rico Department of Education, et al.

Lower Court: Puerto Rico
Docketed: 2025-02-05
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Relisted (2)IFP
Tags: administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection tenure-rights
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2025-06-12 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Can the Judiciary of Puerto Rico deprive a U.S. citizen of due process by denying equal protection and issuing decisions without basing them on the U.S. Constitution's Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments?

Question Presented (from Petition)

This case presents unprecedented, critical, and recurring Fourteenth Amendment and Ninth Amendment issues with significant implications for public tenure service employees in education, as in the case of the petitioner and general. It is imperative that education rights are upheld, and the need for staff retention through tenure law is a pressing issue that cannot be violated by personnel in public trust positions. The education system, which impacts students of different ages and backgrounds, needs professionals in education who, based data, are challenging to on recruit. Ensuring these professionals, including the petitioner, a dignified life, as established in the Constitution of the United States of America, is of utmost importance. This is a case where the petitioner, since the year 2014, has been rightfully requesting reinstatement to her tenured, permanent, career and property, position R-02120 as school principal at Salvador Fuentes Valentin High School in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a position from which she has been illegally deprived by the i former secretary of education, Rafael Roman Melendez. The petitioner was arbitrarily removed from her position contrary to the legal procedures and regulations and the Constitution of the United States of America and of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The responder did not file a responsive pleading at the district court within the 60 non-extendable days established in the Rules of Civil Procedure from Puerto Rico of 2009, as amended. The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, lacking reference to the Constitution of the United States, declined to address and chose not to consider the petitioner ’s appeal regarding her rights tied to her property and her career as a school principal tenured employee. For more than ten years, the petitioner has endured violations of her constitutional, statutory, civil, and human rights, which deserve urgent attention and remedy. The petitioner, whose reinstatement to her tenure job is of the utmost importance, seeks to have her job back so that she can five a dignified life as corresponds to all North American citizens and human beings. The questions presented aren I A 1. Can the Judiciary of Puerto Rico, its Supreme Court, deprive the petitioner, a U.S. citizen who has been rightfully requesting reinstatement to her tenured job, of due process of law by denying equal protection of the laws and issuing decisions in judgments and resolutions without basing them on the Constitution of the United States of America and the Ninth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment Section One of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico? 2. Does the Constitution of the United States of America, through the Ninth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment Section One of the Bill of Rights, protects tenure law for school principals and teachers and solving the petitioner ’s conflict, granting the due process of law and be reinstated to her permanent and career position and property R-02120 as school principal at Salvador Fuentes Valentin High School in Aguadilla and that her benefits and record clearance are reinstated as they were before the transgressing of her constitutional rights, to receive duplicity of in i A her salary for the years waiting for her reinstallation as stipulated in the regulations of the Department of Education in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and any other benefit granted by the Department of Education since the year 2014 to the present as this is a matter in the Constitution of the United States of America? IV

Docket Entries

2025-06-16
Rehearing DENIED.
2025-05-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/12/2025.
2025-04-24
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2025-04-07
Petition DENIED.
2025-03-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/4/2025.
2024-12-30
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 7, 2025)

Attorneys

Charlene Greene-Rodriguez
Charlene A. Greene-Rodriguez — Petitioner
Charlene A. Greene-Rodriguez — Petitioner