Acevedo Diaz v. Aponte ( 1993 )

February 9, 1993 [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]
[NOT FOR PUBLICATION]
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT
No. 92-1847
FRANCO ACEVEDO DIAZ, ET AL.,
Plaintiffs, Appellees,
v.
JOSE E. APONTE DE LA TORRE, ET AL.,
Defendants, Appellees.
DIANETTE MATOS, ET AL.,
Plaintiffs, Appellants.
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO
[Hon. Justo Arenas, U.S. Magistrate Judge]
Before
Selya, Cyr and Stahl, Circuit Judges.
Raul Barrera Morales for appellants.
William Reyes Elias, with whom Cesar R. Miranda Law Office
was on brief, for defendants-appellees.
Per Curiam. The appellants herein, plaintiffs
Per Curiam.
below, appeal from adverse jury verdicts. We have canvassed the
record, studied the briefs, and entertained oral argument.
The evidence was clearly conflicting. And, moreover,
the plaintiffs neither challenged the magistrate judge's jury
instructions nor moved for a new trial after the verdicts were
rendered. Under the circumstances, we need go no further: we
decline to disturb the jury's evaluative judgments, its
resolution of evidentiary conflicts, or its choice among what
were, at the very least, plausible, albeit competing, inferences.
See La Amiga del Pueblo, Inc. v. Robles, 937 F.2d 689, 691 (1st
Cir. 1991).
This appeal, in its present posture, presents no fairly
debatable question for appellate review. We, therefore,
summarily affirm.1 See 1st Cir. Loc. R. 27.1.
Affirmed.
1The companion appeals, Nos. 92-1846 and 92-1848,
consolidated for oral argument before us, will be resolved by
separate opinion.