United States Ninth Circuit

In an action brought by longshoremen formerly employed through defendant-union alleging it breached its duty of fair representation in various ways, grant of union's motion to dismiss with prejudice is reversed where causes of action properly stated a claim that the union breached its duty in declining to place plaintiffs on a hiring hall list, and in failing to address their grievances.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/10/2007
• Decided 02/02/2007
• Published 02/02/2007

Judges

• MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge., Before KLEINFELD, GOULD, and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• H. Nyree Abbott, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• John Kim, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees.