United States Fifth Circuit

Dismissal without prejudice of plaintiffs-flight attendants' petition to vacate an arbitration award under the Railway Labor Act (RLA) is affirmed as one plaintiff failed to exhaust her contractually-created procedural remedies and two others lacked standing to bring a petition under the RLA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/07/2007
• Published 03/08/2007

Judges

• WIENER, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, WIENER, and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carol L. Nelkin (argued), Stuart M. Nelkin, Jay P. Nelkin, Nelkin & Nelkin, Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Jon A. Geier, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Washington, DC, Louis K. Obdyke, IV, Houston TX, Kelly Jean Koelker, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Atlanta, GA, for Continental Airlines., John A. Edmond (argued), Guerrieri, Edmond, Clayman & Bartos, Washington, DC, Marc A. Zito, Houston, TX, for Intern. Ass'n of Mach. & Aerospace Workers.