United States Fourth Circuit

In an airline pilots union's suit to establish and arbitrate before a multi-employer, multi-union board of adjustment, district court's dismissal of the complaint is affirmed as plaintiff's claim is foreclosed by the plain language of section 204 of the Railway Labor Act, which permits but does not require such a board adjustment, and plaintiff's alternative state law claim is meritless.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/12/2010
• Decided 06/23/2010
• Published 06/23/2010

Judges

• Before WILKINSON and KING, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Marcus Charles Migliore, Air Line Pilots Association, International, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Robert Alan Siegel, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Appellees. ON BRIEF:Matthew E. Babcock, Air Line Pilots Association, International, Herndon, Virginia; Bernard J. DiMuro, Dimuroginsberg, PC, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellant. Douglas Ward Hall, Randy C. Sparks, Jr., Ford & Harrison, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees Piedmont Airlines and PSA Airlines, Incorporated; Aparna Joshi, Micah W.J. Smith, Justin Florence, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees U.S. Airways Group, Incorporated, and U.S. Airways, Incorporated. Stanley J. Silverstone, Seham, Seham, Meltz & Petersen, LLP, White Plains, New York, for Appellee U.S. Airline Pilots Association.