Legal Opinion
Smothers v. Benitez
District Court, D. Puerto Rico
Decided November 17, 1992No. Civ. 91-1256 (JAF)PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
FUSTE, District Judge.
Plaintiff is a magna cum laude, 1989 Interamerican University graduate, with an Education major in the English Education Program. The program, approved by Puerto Rico’s Council on Higher Education as offered by Interamerican, was at all times structured and taught in English. Plaintiff, an English-monolingual U.S. citizen, pursued her studies to work as a teacher in Puerto Rico. At the time of her May 1989 graduation, Puerto Rico was officially a bilingual jurisdiction, where Spanish and English were the two recognized languages. 1 L.P.R.A. § 51. 1 Such…
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