United States First Circuit
Gonzalez-Oyarzun v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 14-1954
In an employment dispute brought by an employee alleging violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. section 621, and various Puerto Rico statutes, the district court's dismissal of the dispute on the basis of a valid forum selection clause and simultaneous issuance of a declaratory judgment stating that the Seventh Amendment requires Puerto Rico to provide civil litigants with a jury trial, is vacated as to the declaratory judgment where it was in contravention of binding Supreme Court precedent.
Appellate Information
- Decided 08/18/2015
- Published 08/18/2015
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- United States First Circuit