Gonzalez-Oyarzun v. Commonwealth of P.R., No. 14-1954 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CasePlaintiff brought suit against his employers in the District of Puerto Rico, alleging, inter alia, violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. The employers moved to dismiss the complaint, asserting that a forum selection clause in Plaintiff’s separation agreement provided exclusive jurisdiction in the Court of First Instance, San Juan Division. Plaintiff argued that the forum selection clause was invalid because he did not affirmatively waive his Seventh Amendment Right to a jury trial. The district court concluded that the forum selection clause was valid but entered a declaratory judgment stating that the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico must afford civil litigants the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial. The First Circuit vacated the portion of the district court’s judgment declaring that the Commonwealth must afford civil litigants a jury trial, holding that this action was in contravention of binding Supreme Court precedent. Remanded.
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