Legal Opinion
Uphoff Figueroa v. Alejandro
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 4, 2010No. 08-1921PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
A judge and a jury, between them, rejected all of the multitude of employment claims John Uphoff Figueroa, an environmental attorney, brought against his employer, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and at least seven PREPA officials. His basic theory, dressed in many garbs, was that the new Popular Democratic Party (PDP) regime discriminated against him by denying him a permanent appointment as the administrator of PREPA’s environmental law office and by creating hostile working conditions because he was a member of the New Progressive Party (NPP). He alleges…
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