United States Ninth Circuit

Under the Railway Labor Act, a union for employees of purchasing company has no duty of fair representation to represent employees of the purchased company where it did not tell the employees it was representing them.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/19/2001
• Decided 01/11/2002
• Published 01/11/2002

Judges

• BEEZER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  BEEZER, TROTT and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alan R. Berkowitz,McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, LLP, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeremiah A. Collins, Bredhoff & Kaiser, PLLC, Washington, DC, for the defendant-appellee.