USCA1 Opinion

       [NOT FOR PUBLICATION NOT TO BE CITED AS PRECEDENT]

                 United States Court of Appeals

                     For the First Circuit











No. 99-1576



                        AIDA I. SANTIAGO,



                       Plaintiff, Appellee,



                                v.



                    EXECUTIVE AIRLINES, INC.,



                      Defendant, Appellant.







           APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT



                 FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO



          [Hon. Raymond L. Acosta, U.S. District Judge]









                              Before



                     Torruella, Chief Judge,

               Boudin and Lipez, Circuit Judges.

                                

                                

                                

                                

     

     Carlos A. Rodriguez-Vidal and Goldman, Antonetti & Cordova on

brief for appellant.











December 29, 1999







                                

                                









            Per Curiam.   We carefully have reviewed the record

  and submissions, and we affirm.  The claims under Puerto Rico

  law did not closely parallel the federal claims, so we cannot

  say the district court abused its discretion in dismissing

  those claims without prejudice under 28 U.S.C.  1367(c)(3) and

  allowing a court more accustomed to those claims to address

  them; see Penobscot Indian Nation v. Key Bank, 112 F.3d 538,

  564 (1st Cir. 1996) (district court must take into account

  concerns of comity and judicial economy in exercising its

  discretion under 28 U.S.C.  1367(c)(3)).

            Affirmed.  1st Cir. Loc. R. 27(c).