Legal Opinion
Burgos v. Executive Air, Inc.
District Court, D. Puerto Rico
Decided February 12, 1996No. Civil 95-2399(PG)PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
PEREZ-GIMENEZ, District Judge.
• Plaintiff-Burgos, a former airline flight attendant, brought this suit in the Superior Court for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, San Juan Part, in October 1995. She alleged that her former employer, defendant-Executive Air (“Executive”), failed to compensate her as required by Commonwealth minimum and over-time wage laws, 29 L.P.R.A. §§ 245-46M, 271-88. 1 Executive timely removed the ease to this Court, contending that Bingos’ suit involved a purely federal ques tion because her state-law claims were preempted by the federal Railway Labor Act…
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