United States Tenth Circuit

In an unfair labor practice claim alleging the employer discriminated against union supporters in making lay-offs, a court may temporarily enjoin the employer's state breach of contract action against employees seeking to enforce covenants not to sue in severance agreements.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/25/2001
• Published 09/25/2001

Judges

• Before SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge, McWILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge, and BELOT, District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• David E. Strecker (James E. Erwin with him on the briefs), of Strecker & Associates, P.C., Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Respondent-Appellant., Laura T. Vazquez, Attorney (Leonard R. Page, General Counsel; Mary Joyce Carlson, Deputy General Counsel; Barry J. Kearney, Associate General Counsel; Ellen A. Farrell, Assistant General Counsel; Judith I. Katz, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, with her on the brief), of the National Labor Relations Board, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner-Appellee.