United States Fourth Circuit

Holding that petitioner's closing an employee cafeteria amounted to an arbitrable withdrawal of a benefit of employment under two applicable agreements, a multi-state Compact creating the petitioner authority, and a collective bargaining agreement between the petitioner and respondent, is affirmed as the cafeteria constituted an employment benefit as defined by the two governing instruments.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/30/2005
• Decided 10/04/2006
• Published 10/04/2006

Judges

• Before WIDENER and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Robert G. Ames, Venable, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  David Raphael Levinson, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Lesley A. Pate, Venable, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Martin P. Hogan, Gromfine & Taylor, P.C., Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee.