CALDERON ROSADO v. GENERAL ELEC. CIRCUIT BREAKERS

No. 86-1306.

805 F.2d 1085 (1986)

Luis CALDERON ROSADO, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS, INC., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 25, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jesus Hernandez Sanchez, San Juan, on brief for plaintiff, appellant.

Gregory T. Usera, Carl Schuster and McConnell Valdes, Kelley Sifre Griggs & Ruiz-Suria, San Juan, on brief for defendants, appellees.

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


LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.

This appeal presents the question whether the dismissal of an action plaintiff brought in a court of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico contending he had been wrongfully discharged acted as a bar, under res judicata principles, to a subsequent age discrimination action brought in the federal district court.

The facts are these. Plaintiff was discharged on July 29, 1983. Later that year...

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