Legal Opinion
Ramirez v. Puerto Rico Fire Service
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 26, 1983No. 83-1012PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, District Judge.
In September, 1978, when he was forty-three years old, Jose E. Muniz Ramirez applied to become a firefighter in the Puerto Rico Fire Service (“PRFS”). He subsequently passed a physical examination, and received qualifying grades in all of the customary tests. The appellant’s aspirations proved to be short-lived, however, as the Office of Personnel of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico notified him on October 1, 1980 that he was ineligible for employment as a fireman because of his age.1 After the filing of timely charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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3Cited by67 opinions
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