United States Eleventh Circuit

A request for interpretation of an arbitration award does not toll the running of the statute of limitations under section 151 of the Railway Labor Act (RLA). In a case where the statute of limitations under section 151 of RLA expired before plaintiff sought to enforce an arbitration award in the district court, dismissal of the enforcement action is affirmed where: 1) the award expressly provided the time of compliance and date which the cause of action accrued; 2) the district judge did not err in dismissing the enforcement action as barred by the limitations period; and 3) equitable tolling did not apply.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/04/2008
• Published 04/04/2008

Judges

• BIRCH, Circuit Judge:, Before BIRCH, BLACK and MARCUS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard Steven Edelman, O'Donnell, Schwartz & Anderson, P.C., Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ronald Maurice Johnson, Michael S. McIntosh, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee.