duty-of-fair-representation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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 Pending 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 Do a union and employer violate the Railway Labor Act by requiring non-members to financially support a union in a manner not authorized by statute, 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 Whether a political subdivision has immunity under 301 labor management (duty of fair representation) and whether such immunity can be waived when fed…
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 Whether federal courts improperly exercised subject matter jurisdiction in a labor dispute involving a collective bargaining agreement and duty of fai…
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 Do the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) necessitate employers and unions to engage in an interacti…
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 Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in misquoting the plaintiff's complaint and incorrectly opining that the plaintiff alleged the union …
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 Whether Discrimination/Duty of Fair Representation violated by the Labor International Union 269 under Title VH 42 U.S.C. 2000(e)
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 Whether Section 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act provides a private right of action