Legal Opinion
Román-Oliveras v. Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA)
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 5, 2015No. 13-1991PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARRON, Circuit Judge.
This appeal arises from a suit that Héctor Luis Román-Oliveras, along with his wife and mother, brought against his former employer, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), and two individual supervisors. The potential obstacle that the plaintiffs must overcome to keep their suit alive arises from the settlement negotiations that took place in the summer of 2012. Because we agree with the District Court that these talks produced a binding oral settlement agreement that the District Court had jurisdiction to enforce, we agree with the District Court that this…
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