Legal Opinion
Garayalde-Rijos v. Municipality of Carolina
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 28, 2014No. 13-1487PublishedCited by 207 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
The district court granted a motion to dismiss the Title VII and state law claims of a woman who aspired to be a municipal firefighter. She has appealed.
Waleska Garayalde-Rijos sued the Municipality of Carolina (Carolina) and José Aponte-Dalmau, the Mayor of Carolina (Mayor), in September 2011, alleging that Carolina had refused to hire her as a firefighter for several vacancies because of her gender, although she was allegedly the most qualified candidate. Carolina eventually did hire Garayalde-Rijos as a firefighter after it had already hired allegedly less qualified…
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