Legal Opinion
Sepulveda-Vargas v. Caribbean Restaurants, LLC
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 30, 2018No. 16-2451PPublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
Today's opinion is a lesson straight out of the school of hard knocks. No matter how sympathetic the plaintiff or how harrowing his plights, the law is the law and sometimes it's just not on his side. See Medina-Rivera v. MVM, Inc. , 713 F.3d 132 , 138 (1st Cir. 2013) (quoting Turner v. Atl. Coast Line R.R. Co. , 292 F.2d 586 , 589 (5th Cir. 1961) (Wisdom, J.) ("[H]ard as our sympathies may pull us, our duty to maintain the integrity of the substantive law pulls harder.") )
Stage Setting
Plaintiff, Victor A. Sepúlveda-Vargas ("Sepúlveda"), sued Defendant, Caribbean…
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