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Pedro
Delgado-Hernández
is
a
partner
in
the
Labor
and
Employment
Law
Department.
He
joined
O'Neill
&
Borges
in
1986.
From
1984
to
1986,
Mr.
Delgado-Hernández
clerked
for
the
Honorable
Juan
R.
Torruella,
Chief
Judge
of
the
United
States
District
Court
for
the
District
of
Puerto
Rico
and,
from
November
1984,
Judge
(formerly
Chief
Judge)
of
the
United
States
Court
of
Appeals
for
the
First
Circuit.
From
1993
to
1995,
Mr.
Delgado-Hernández
served
as
Solicitor
General
of
the
Commonwealth
of
Puerto
Rico.
In
1995,
Mr.
Delgado-Hernández
was
appointed
judge
of
the
Puerto
Rico
Court
of
Appeals,
where
he
served
until
1996,
at
which
time
he
returned
to
the
firm.
Mr.
Delgado-Hernández
counsels
and
represents
employers
in
various
employment
related
areas,
including
discrimination,
dismissals,
medical
leaves
of
absence,
employment
torts,
sexual
harassment,
reductions-
in-
force
and
plant
closings.
Representative
cases
include:
Nazario
v.
Nypro
Puerto
Rico,
2003
U.S.
Dist.
LEXIS
15040
(D.P.R.
2003);
Landrau
v.
Caribbean
Restaurants,
14
F.Supp.2d
185
(D.P.R.
1998)(applying
the
harassment
Faragher
defense
under
Puerto
Rico
law);
Morales-Narváez
v.
Rosselló,
1995
U.S.
App.
LEXIS
26064
(injunctions;
political
discrimination);
Rivera-Cotto
v.
Rivera,
38
F.3d
611(1st
Cir.
1994)(disability
and
political
discrimination);
Charles
v.
Rice,
28
F.3d
1312
(1st
Cir.
1994)(disability
discrimination);
Santiago
v.
Lloyd,
66
F.Supp.
2d
282
(D.P.R.
1999);
López
Campos
v.
Garage
Isla
Verde,
126
D.P.R.
166
(1990)(sexual
harassment).
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