Luis CALDERON ROSADO, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS, INC., Et Al., Defendants, Appellees

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.

This appeal presents the question whether the dismissal of an action plaintiff brought in a court of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico contending he had been wrongfully discharged acted as a bar, under res judicata principles, to a subsequent age discrimination action brought in the federal district court.

The facts are these. Plaintiff was discharged on July 29, 1983. Later that year he filed an action in the Superior Court of Puerto Rico complaining of two things: 1). that defendant employer had failed to compensate plaintiff for overtime hours worked in the past…