Legal Opinion
Rodriguez v. Senor Frog's de la Isla, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 12, 2011No. 09-2548PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
This is a diversity-based personal-injury case. A jury returned a $450,000 verdict for Paloma Rodríguez against Señor Frog’s de la Isla, Inc. (“Señor Frog,” for short) in Puerto Rico’s federal district court. Señor Frog now appeals, challenging nearly every aspect of the district judge’s performance. Unable to find any reversible error in the judge’s actions, we affirm.
How It All Began 1
San Juan, Puerto Rico, early in the predawn morning of December 5, 2004. Cruising in her Mazda 323 on the Muñoz Rivera Expressway, 21-year-old Rodriguez hit a pothole — a collision that…
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