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RIVERA-FLORES v. BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB CARIBBEAN

No. 96-1885.

112 F.3d 9 (1997)

Gidel RIVERA-FLORES, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB CARIBBEAN, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 25, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Octavio A. Diaz-Negron, Humacao, PR, Idalia M. Diaz and Peter J. Porrata, Hato Rey, PR, for plaintiff, appellant.

Carl Schuster, with whom Maria Santiago de Vidal, Maria Maldonado-Nieves and Schuster Usera Aguilo & Santiago, Hato Rey, PR, were on brief for defendants, appellees.

Jay A. Garcia-Gregory and Fiddler, Gonzalez & Rodriguez, San Juan, on brief for appellee, Prudential Insurance Company.

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

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Gidel Rivera-Flores worked first as a machine cleaner and later as a line operator for Squibb Manufacturing Inc. ("SMI") in Humacao, Puerto Rico. Some two years after his employment was terminated under a severance program, Rivera, who wore a prosthetic device in place of his lower left leg, sued SMI and its insurer, Prudential Insurance Co., under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., the Employee...

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