Gonzalez Figueroa v. JC PENNEY PUERTO RICO

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal requires us to consider the interplay between the statute of limitations and the maintenance of derivative tort claims brought by relatives of an age discrimination plaintiff. The district court dismissed the relatives’ claims as time-barred, holding that the limitations period had begun to run when the relatives learned of the principal plaintiffs demotion and continued to run without interruption despite the pendency of that plaintiffs discrimination claim before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). González Figueroa v. J.C. Penney P.R., Inc.…