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RAMIREZ POMALES v. BECTON DICKINSON & CO., S.A.

No. 86-1975.

839 F.2d 1 (1988)

Awilda RAMIREZ POMALES, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. BECTON DICKINSON & CO., S.A., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 10, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernesto Maldonado, San Juan, P.R., for plaintiffs, appellants.

Donald R. Ware with whom Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Mass., Alfonso Miranda Cardenas, Miranda Cardenas & Cordova, San Juan, P.R., and Roy P. Weber, were on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, GARTH, Senior Circuit Judge, and BREYER, Circuit Judge.

GARTH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs are 75 former employees of a thermometer manufacturing plant in Juncos, Puerto Rico, plus 193 family members of former employees. On November 17, 1978, plaintiffs filed suit against the Becton, Dickinson Co. and the officers and directors of Becton Dickinson Co., et al., (hereinafter "BD"), alleging that they failed to meet their duty to provide a safe working environment at the Puerto Rico plant of BD's wholly owned...

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