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GARAYALDE-RIJOS v. MUNICIPALITY OF CAROLINA

No. 13-1487.

747 F.3d 15 (2014)

Waleska GARAYALDE-RIJOS, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. MUNICIPALITY OF CAROLINA; José Aponte-Dalmau, Mayor of the Municipality of Carolina, Defendants, Appellees, Germán Santiago-Serpa; Juan Ortiz-Crespo; Nydia R. Talavera-Forty, Auxiliar Director of Human Resources Department; Mabel López, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

March 28, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Juan M. Frontera Suau for appellant.

Jorge Martínez-Luciano , with whom Pedro E. Ortiz-Álvarez, LLC was on brief, for appellee Municipality of Carolina.

Rosa Elena Pérez-Agosto , Assistant Solicitor General, with whom Margarita Mercado-Echegaray , Solicitor General, was on brief, for appellee José Aponte-Dalmau.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and SELYA, Circuit Judges.

LYNCH, Chief Judge.

The district court granted a motion to dismiss the Title VII and state law claims of a woman who aspired to be a municipal firefighter. She has appealed.

Waleska Garayalde-Rijos sued the Municipality of Carolina (Carolina) and José Aponte-Dalmau, the Mayor of Carolina (Mayor), in September 2011, alleging that Carolina had refused to hire her as a firefighter for several vacancies because of her gender, although she was allegedly the...

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