MUÑIZ-OLIVARI v. STIEFEL LABORATORIES, INC.

No. 06-1944.

496 F.3d 29 (2007)

José A. MUÑIZ-OLIVARI; Annabelle Durán-López; Conjugal Partnership Muñiz-Durán, Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. STIEFEL LABORATORIES, INC., Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 1, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheldon H. Nahmod, with whom Arturo Díaz-Angueira, Roberto Feliberti, and Cancio, Nadal, Rivera & Díaz, P.S.C. were on brief, for appellant.

Rubén T. Nigaglioni, with whom Rafael Martínez García and Nigaglioni & Ferraiuoli Law Offices P.S.C. were on brief, for appellees.

Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.


LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

A jury found Stiefel Laboratories, Inc. in breach of a 2001 binding verbal contract that guaranteed José Muñiz-Olivari continued employment if Stiefel were to decide in the future to close its Puerto Rico subsidiary, which Muñiz headed. Stiefel terminated Muñiz's employment, along with that of all of its other Puerto Rico employees, when it shut down its Puerto Rico operations on January 31, 2003. Muñiz was not offered...

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