Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
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No. 95-1365
EDWIN OCASIO-APONTE,
Plaintiff, Appellant,
v.
Defendants, Appellees.
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Before
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Solicitor
General,
Jacqueline Novas-Debi
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Solici
Sig
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*Of the
United
States
Court
of
International
Trade,
sitting
designation.
Per
Curiam.
Appellant
Ocasio-Aponte
appeals
the
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1983, by the
had
because it
limitations period.
We affirm.
23, 1992.
Court
of
Puerto
Rico
administrative remedies.
subsequently
The Supreme
denied Aponte-Ocasio's
petition
for review
and
motion for
reconsideration.
The
reconsideration on
April
22, 1991.
The
Supreme Court
of
on May
1, 1991.
The sole
question
in this
period ended.
According
lasted
mandate issued;
until
case
is when
the
tolling
according
to
appellees, the
notified on April
reconsideration.
Both parties
is
State law,
question
here the
law of
of the duration of
Garcia, 471
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U.S. 261,
F.2d 45, 47
Puerto Rico,
269 (1985);
As
Gonsalves v.
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controls the
Wilson v.
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Flynn, 981
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held,
under Puerto Rico law, the tolling period ends when the court
(1975).
707, 717
"rendered
and
notified
with the
proper
legal formality,"
P.R.R. 89, 96
(1967).
511 (1927)
from
(judgment final,
date rendered
for purposes of
and filed
with court
P.R.R. 509,
taking appeal,
not from
date on
a final judgment in
the instant
Puerto
Rico
Supreme Court
reconsideration
had been
that Ocasio-Aponte's
denied.
of
limitations
began to
As
of
April 22,
run
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anew.
motion for
1991,
the statute
Rodriguez Narvaez v.
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action
was
filed more
than one
year
from this
date, the
Affirmed.
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