Legal Opinion
Carrero-Ojeda v. Autoridad de Energia Electrica
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 20, 2014No. 12-2133PublishedCited by 175 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant Minerva Carrero-Oje-da (“Carrero”) says that after she blew the whistle on wrongdoing in her office, her employer and her superiors retaliated against her in myriad ways. They threatened her, unjustly disciplined her, and— most relevantly for our purposes — deprived her of benefits owed to her under the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601-2654, and ultimately fired her. Carrero now appeals the district court’s dismissal of her FMLA complaint for failure to state a claim. She also challenges the court’s failure to grant or, at…
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