Kathleen Betts v. United Airlines, Inc.
Arbitration
Whether the Seventh Circuit so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure by a lower court, as to call for an exercise of this Court's supervisory power?
QUESTION PRESENTED In July 2016, after an extended sick leave, this pro se petitioner requested that she be returned to flight status as a pilot at United . Airlines. The petitioner had been a member of Airline Pilots Association (ALPA) since 1996 when she first began flying for United as a First Officer. The plaintiff's collective bargaining unit, ALPA, arranged for the petitioner to appear at an arbitration hearing at ALPA headquarters in Chicago, IL on July 12, 2016. As she was unsuccessful at arbitration, the petitioner then filed a lawsuit in United States District Court for the Northern District of Iinois along with an EEOC charge alleging retaliation on April 10, 2017. After the final judgment was rendered in the lower court, the petitioner appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The Question Presented is: Whether the Seventh Circuit so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure by a lower court, as to call for an exercise of this Court's supervisory power? This petition focuses on arbitration procedures as well as the procedures utilized in both the lower court and the seventh circuit.