Legal Opinion
Julio A. Mercado-Garcia, Maria Del Carmen Avila Mugica, and Their Marital Conjugalship v. Ponce Federal Bank
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 19, 1992No. 91-2296PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN; Circuit Judge:
In this case involving claims of age and employment discrimination we must resolve several issues of first impression.
I
Julio Mercado-Garcia (“Mercado”) was fifty years old and had been in the employ of the Ponce Federal Bank (“the Bank”) for eleven years when he was discharged from his position as Vice President for Human Resources in 1988. The final year of his tenure had not apparently been pleasant. Mercado says that his problems began in November 1987 when he refused to accede to his supervisor’s request that he falsify certain personnel records. By his refusal…
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