United States Sixth Circuit

Grant of a preliminary injunction to plaintiff-railroad enjoining defendant-union from exercising self-help over a dispute concerning changes to the parties' Collective Bargaining Agreements and enforcing the requirements of the Railway Labor Act is affirmed over a claim that the Norris-LaGuardia Act deprived the district court of jurisdiction to grant the injunction because the railroad has not made every reasonable effort to negotiate a new labor agreement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/09/2007
• Published 08/09/2007

Judges

• Before:  KENNEDY, GIBBONS, and McKEAGUE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Richard S. Edelman, O'Donnell, Schwartz and Anderson, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Robert S. Hawkins, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Richard S. Edelman, O'Donnell, Schwartz and Anderson, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.   Robert S. Hawkins, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Appellee.  Holly Taft Sydlow, Assistant United States Attorney, Toledo, Ohio, for Intervenor.