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CONSTRUCTION AGGREGATES CORP. v. RIVERA de VICENTY

No. 77-1399.

573 F.2d 86 (1978)

CONSTRUCTION AGGREGATES CORP., Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Julia RIVERA de VICENTY et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 14, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay A. Garcia Gregory, with whom Fiddler, Gonzalez & Rodriguez, San Juan, P.R., was on brief, for plaintiff, appellant.

Reina Colon de Rodriguez, Asst. Sol. Gen., Dept. of Justice, and Fidel A. Sevillano Del Rio, San Juan, P.R., with whom Hector A. Colon Cruz and Ronaldo Rodriguez Ossorio, San Juan, P.R., were on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Circuit Judges.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

This appeal concerns the limits of Puerto Rico's authority to apply its workmen's compensation law to various categories of seamen, a question already addressed in many previous decisions.1 Beyond that it also raises complicated federal abstention questions.

Construction Aggregates Corp. ("Construction") brought suit in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico in January...

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