railway-labor-act
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-495 | The Boeing Company v. Southwest Airline Pilots Association, on Behalf of Itself and its Members | Texas | 2025-10-22 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | airline-industry collective-bargaining-agreement preemption railway-labor-act state-law-claims third-party-liability | Whether the Railway Labor Act preempts state-law claims against a third party that cannot be resolved without interpreting a collective bargaining agr… |
| 25A298 | The Boeing Company v. Southwest Airline Pilots Association, on Behalf of Itself and its Members | Texas | 2025-09-16 | Presumed Complete | collective-bargaining labor-union preemption railway-labor-act state-law-tort third-party-claim | Whether the Railway Labor Act preempts state-law tort claims brought by a labor union against a third party that require interpretation of a collectiv… | |
| 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… |
| 24-6555 | Bianca A. Hughley v. Southwest Airlines | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arbitration breach-of-contract employment-law grievance-procedures minor-disputes railway-labor-act | Did the United States District Court of Maryland err in dismissing Ms. Hughley's Breach of Contract claim when she was denied grievance and arbitratio… |
| 24-709 | Kirk E. Knopp v. CSX Transportation Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-01-03 | Denied | Response Waived | first-amendment notice-requirements railway-labor-act social-media-policy summary-judgment union-representation | Whether indirect notice to an employee by a union representative satisfies 45 U.S.C. § 153, First (j) when the union materially ignores the employee i… |
| 23-275 | Nancy Avina v. Union Pacific Railroad | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-21 | Denied | 42-usc-1981 age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act civil-rights employment-discrimination employment-law federal-preemption preemption railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation | Does the Railway Labor Act preempt, preclude or otherwise limit claims under anti-discrimination statutes? | |
| 23-249 | Dawn C. Polk v. Amtrak National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-15 | Denied | anti-discrimination circuit-conflict civil-rights preemption railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation title-vii | Does the Railway Labor Act preempt, preclude or otherwise limit claims under anti-discrimination statutes? | |
| 23A58 | Dawn Polk v. Amtrak National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Presumed Complete | arbitration collective-bargaining-agreement preemption race-discrimination railway-labor-act title-vii | Whether the Railway Labor Act's mandatory arbitration requirements preempt federal statutory claims, including Title VII discrimination claims, or whe… | |
| 22-220 | Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-09 | Denied | Amici (2) | antiunion-animus arbitration-procedures circuit-split collective-bargaining mandatory-arbitration railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation union-representation union-representatives | Whether union 'representatives' under 45 U.S.C. § 152 Third means all union officers (as the court below held), only those union officers serving as c… |
| 21-956 | Sojourner Rudisill v. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-12-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-law administrative-review arbitration civil-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction labor-law railway-labor-act | Whether the Railway Labor Act permits courts to exercise jurisdiction over due process challenges to decisions rendered by RLA arbitration panels |
| 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… |
| 20-1643 | Arthur Baisley v. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Denied | constitutional-rights fair-representation first-amendment janus-v-afscme labor-law opt-out opt-out-procedures political-activities railway-labor-act union-fees | Whether opt-out procedures for collecting union fees for ideological and political activities violate the First Amendment or the Railway Labor Act | |
| 20-1378 | Linda Rizzo-Rupon, et al. v. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO District 141, Local 914, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-04-01 | Denied | agency-fees first-amendment janus-v-afscme private-sector-employees railway-labor-act state-action union-representation | Does this Court's recent First Amendment agency-fee ban announced in Janus v. AFSCME apply to private-sector employees governed by the Railway Labor A… | |
| 20-495 | Charee Stanley v. ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | cba-interpretation circuit-split federal-preemption federal-statutory-claims mandatory-arbitration preemption railway-labor-act title-vii undue-hardship | Whether the RLA's mandatory arbitration requirement applies to federal statutory claims |
| 18-579 | Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Judy Schurke, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-02 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | arbitration-requirement civil-procedure collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement federal-jurisdiction labor-management-relations-act labor-preemption labor-relations ninth-circuit-ruling preemption railway-labor-act state-law-claim state-law-claims | Whether federal courts lack authority to inquire into the nature and scope of an alleged state law claim in determining whether resolution of that cla… |