United States Second Circuit

The Railway Labor Act does not completely preempt plaintiff's state-law defamation claims and, therefore, it does not provide federal courts with original jurisdiction over them.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/13/2005
• Published 09/13/2005

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, Chief Judge., Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, LEVAL and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael G. O'Neill, New York, New York, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Harry A. Rissetto, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (Thomas E. Reinert, Jr., and Joseph A. Piesco, Jr., on the brief), Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees American Airlines, Inc., Stan Roberts, and Edwin P. Argonza, II.