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Longtime federal appeals court Judge Juan Torruella dies

by Alanna Durkin Richer
| October 27, 2020 12:03 AM

BOSTON (AP) — Judge Juan Torruella, the first Puerto Rican to sit on a U.S. federal appeals court, died Monday at the age of 87, the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said.

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