Legal Opinion
Doctors Hospital, Inc. v. Luis Silva Recio, Secretary of Labor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 21, 1977No. 76-1119PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
INGRAHAM, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs-appellants are private hospitals in Puerto Rico. The Secretary of Labor for the Commonwealth, defendant-appellee in this case, notified appellants that under Mandatory Decree No. 4 of the Minimum Wage Board of Puerto Rico they were liable for back wages on work performed by their employees from 1967 to 1974. The hospitals sued for declaratory and injunc-tive relief in the United States District Court, alleging, inter alia, that the Fair Labor Standards Act 1 preempted Mandatory Decree No. 4. The district court found that the decree was not preempted with…
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