Heibert Rojas-Hernandez v. Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

Rojas-Hernandez appeals from the district court’s denial of his motion to set a trial date in his action against Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and Cooperativa Jardines de San Ignacio. Because the district court’s decision to delay the trial in the federal case until after the ending of a related proceeding pending in the courts of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico may deprive the plaintiff of a federal forum in which to litigate his claim, and has led to unnecessary delay in the federal action, we hold that the order is, in effect, a surrender of federal…