Legal Opinion
Guillermo Bonilla-Aviles, Maria Velazquez, C/p Bonilla-Velazquez v. Southmark San Juan, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 12, 1993No. 92-2365PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.
The United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico dismissed the plaintiffs’ diversity tort suit on two grounds: (1) that the Puerto Rico statute of limitations barred the suit and (2) that dismissal was warranted because of one of the plaintiffs’ repeated failures to comply with the court’s pretrial orders. We affirm the dismissal on the limitations ground and, therefore, find it unnecessary to reach the second ground.
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On April 4, 1991, the plaintiffs, Mr. Bonilla and his wife, filed a diversity action in the United States District Court for the…
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