RAMIREZ v. PUERTO RICO FIRE SERVICE

No. 83-1012.

715 F.2d 694 (1983)

Jose E. Muniz RAMIREZ, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. PUERTO RICO FIRE SERVICE and Office of Personnel and Its Director, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 26, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jose M. Munoz Silva, Santurce, P.R., for plaintiff, appellant.

Gerardo Mariani, Asst. Sol. Gen., Santurce, P.R., with whom Miguel Pagan, Sol. Gen., San Juan, P.R., was on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before COFFIN and BREYER, Circuit Judges, and SELYA, District Judge.


SELYA, District Judge.

In September, 1978, when he was forty-three years old, Jose E. Muniz Ramirez applied to become a firefighter in the Puerto Rico Fire Service ("PRFS"). He subsequently passed a physical examination, and received qualifying grades in all of the customary tests. The appellant's aspirations proved to be short-lived, however, as the Office of Personnel of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico notified him on October 1, 1980 that he was ineligible for employment...

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