United States First Circuit

District court erroneously granted summary judgment where there remained disputed issues of fact regarding whether individual's objection to union membership was the product of a "bona fide religious belief," an element of the EEOC's claim of religious discrimination.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/04/2002
• Published 02/04/2002

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, KRAVITCH, Senior Circuit Judge, and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marcos A. Ramírez-Lavandero, with whom Ramírez Lavandero, Landrón & Vera and Eduardo A. Vera-Ramírez, were on brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Susan L.P. Starr, Attorney, with whom Gwendolyn Young Reams, Acting Deputy General Counsel, Philip B. Sklover, Associate General Counsel, and Vincent J. Blackwood, Assistant General Counsel, were on brief for appellee Equal Employment Opportunity Commission., Roberto Ariel Fernández, with whom Lespier & Mũnoz-Noya, were on brief for appellee Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados.