Martinez-Rivera v. Commonwealth of P.R., No. 13-1772 (1st Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseAfter Plaintiff was terminated from her employment with Puerto Rico’s Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, she filed a federal-court suit alleging that Defendants discriminated against her because of her disability, age, and politics. Plaintiff’s complaint alleged various violations of federal and local law. The district court dismissed Plaintiff’s 42 U.S.C. 1983 claim for failure to exhaust administrative remedies and then dismissed the remaining claims without explanation. The First Circuit affirmed the district court’s judgment in every respect, except that the Court reversed the dismissal of Plaintiff’s Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) claim, holding (1) the district judge erred in concluding that Plaintiff’s section 1983 claim was barred for failure to exhaust administrative remedies, but Plaintiff’s section 1983 was time-barred; (2) because Defendants agreed that Plaintiff’s ADA claim should not have been dismissed on failure-to-exhaust grounds, the reversal is dismissed; (3) Plaintiff’s age discrimination claim was correctly dismissed for failure to exhaust; and (4) because the dismissal of the ADA claim is reversed, the judge on remand must reinstate the local-law claims as well.
The court issued a subsequent related opinion or order on February 5, 2016.
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