duty-of-fair-representation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-974 Kevin D. Wickstrom, et al. v. Air Line Pilots Association, International Seventh Circuit 2026-02-18 Pending bad-faith duty-of-fair-representation pleading-stage-dismissal railway-labor-act status-quo-requirements union-discretion 1. Whether a union's duty of fair representation under the Railway Labor Act includes an obligation to enforce the Act's status quo requirements under…
25-801 Thomas Schramm v. United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO-CLC, aka United Steel Workers, aka USW Sixth Circuit 2026-01-07 Denied Response Waived contract-negotiations duty-of-fair-representation individual-discharge labor-law objective-evidence union-grievance 1. Whether the same standards for determining a breach of the duty of fair representation in contract negotiations should be imposed upon unions fo…
25-488 Valerie Asato v. Hawaii Government Employees Association, et al. Hawaii 2025-10-20 Denied Response Waived constitutional-search duty-of-fair-representation employee-rights fourth-amendment grievance-process labor-law 1. Whether the Hawaii Government Employees Association ("HGEA") breached its duty of fair representation under federal and state labor law by engag…
25-5359 Robert Joyce v. Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied IFP arbitration-award collective-bargaining duty-of-fair-representation employment-termination federal-rules labor-relations 1. Should Petitioner have been foreclosed from challenging the alleged fraud in Federal Court pursuant to 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act be…
24-1101 Ali Bahreman v. Allegiant Air, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining duty-of-fair-representation employee-rights labor-organization railway-labor-act union-representation 1. Do a union and employer violate § 2, Fourth by requiring non-members to financially support a union in a manner not authorized by § 2, Eleventh (a)…
24-7004 Gerald Nelson v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP duty-of-fair-representation federal-jurisdiction immunity labor-management political-subdivision wrongful-discharge 1. Whether a political subdivision has immunity under 301 labor management (duty of fair representation/public employees) ? 2. Whether 301 labor mana…
24A678 Gerald Nelson v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-10 Presumed Complete collective-bargaining duty-of-fair-representation federal-removal labor-management-act pro-se-litigation subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
23-1354 Jamilah Abdul-Haqq v. Permanente Medical Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act duty-of-fair-representation employment-discrimination fair-employment-and-housing-act interactive-process post-traumatic-stress-disorder reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations The basis for the Grant of Certiorari is that the lower court's error regarding individuals with disabilities has fundamental legal significance and m…
21-278 John Krakowski, et al. v. Allied Pilots Association, et al. Second Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-1113 bankruptcy-court collective-bargaining discrimination duty-of-fair-representation labor-union railway-labor-act seniority-system Where a labor union imposed as part of its collective bargaining agreement a seniority system that admittedly discriminated in bad faith against a dis…
20-1458 Jon L. Bryan v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure duty-of-fair-representation grievance-procedure grievance-withdrawal labor-law statute-of-limitations union-representation Whether the court erred by ruling that a union member's duty of fair representation claim, filed two months after the union's withdrawal of his 19-yea…
20-7104 Vincent Lyle Badkin v. Lockheed Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement duty-of-fair-representation judicial-review labor-management-relations labor-management-relations-act section-301 wrongful-termination In this "hybrid § 301" claim brought under Section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 185, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals "has…
19-7686 Maurice Buford v. Laborers' International Union Local 269, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discrimination duty-of-fair-representation employment-law fair-representation harassment labor-law labor-union statute-of-limitations title-vii weingarten-rights whistleblower-protection I. Whether Discrimination/Duty of Fair Representation violated by the Labor International Union 269 under Title VI I42 U.S.C. 2000(e) {Goodman v. Luke…
18-3 Robbie Ohlendorf, et al. v. Local 876, United Food & Commercial Workers International Union Sixth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied alexander-v-sandoval check-off-authorization duty-of-fair-representation federal-jurisdiction first-amendment labor-management-relations labor-management-relations-act private-right-of-action revocation statutory-interpretation 1) Labor Management Relations Act Section 302(e) grants federal courts jurisdiction to restrain violations of the statute. 29 U.S.C. § 186(e). The Cou…