United States Sixth Circuit

In a matter arising from plaintiff-employer's termination of a pilot after it learned that he had made a video depicting his shooting a rifle at a DVD produced by employer promoting a tentative agreement between it and the pilots' union, an award reinstating the pilot is affirmed where, assuming without deciding that public policy review is permitted under the Railway Labor Act (RLA), the award at issue did not violate any public policy that conceivably could warrant vacating an RLA arbitration award.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/15/2007
• Published 05/15/2007

Judges

• Before:  ROGERS and GRIFFIN, Circuit Judges;  RUSSELL, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Joseph E. Santucci, Morgan Lewis & Brockius, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  William R. Wilder, Baptiste & Wilder, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Joseph E. Santucci, Morgan Lewis & Brockius, Washington, D.C., O. Judson Scheaf III, Thompson Hine, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellant.  William R. Wilder, Baptiste & Wilder, Washington, D.C., Jonathan C. Wentz, Barkan Neff Handelman Meizlish, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellee.