Legal Opinion
Rivera-Díaz v. Humana Insurance of Puerto Rico, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 11, 2014No. 13-1475PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
When federal rights-creating statutes are conditioned upon the prior exhaustion of administrative remedies, time limits are often an essential part of the regulatory scheme. In this case, the plaintiff managed to trip over not one, but two, of these temporal benchmarks. Accordingly, the district court dismissed his complaint. After careful consideration, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
Inasmuch as this appeal follows the granting of a motion to dismiss, we draw the relevant facts from the plaintiffs complaint. See Jorge v. Rumsfeld, 404 F.3d 556, 558-59 (1st Cir.2005). Although…
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