Alejandro-Ortiz v. Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

We review the district court’s denial of defendant-appellant Puerto Rico Power Authority’s (“PREPA”) Rule 50(a) mo tion for judgment as a matter of law. Fed. R.Civ.P. 50(a). Plaintiffs, a husband and wife suing in their own name and on behalf of their minor children, complained of injuries brought about by a power line, owned by PREPA, with which the husband came into contact. This appeal concerns only the claims of the wife, Sonia Rodriguezs Jiménez (“Rodríguez”).

Rodriguez’s claims are time barred by the Puerto Rico one-year statute of limitations. P.R. Laws Ann.…