Legal Opinion
Rodriguez-Bruno v. Doral Mortgage
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 23, 1995No. 94-2227PublishedCited by 470 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal invites us to explore, and in turn to demarcate, the outer boundaries of a promontory of federal judicial power. At the base of the appeal is a sexual harassment suit brought by Nydia G. Rodriguez Bruno (Rodriguez) against her former employer, Doral Mortgage Corporation (Doral). 1 Premising jurisdiction on the assertion of a federal civil rights violation, see 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1343(a)(4), the plaintiff pressed a claim under Title VTI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e to 2000e-17 (1988), and hitched to it a pendent claim under a Puerto Rico…
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