Legal Opinion

United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local 1564 of New Mexico v. Albertson's, Inc.

Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Decided March 16, 2000No. 98-2267PublishedCited by 55 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LUCERO, Circuit Judge.

This case presents the question of whether a federal court has jurisdiction to adjudicate a union’s declaratory judgment claim, premised on the federal question statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1331, and the Declaratory Judgment Act of 1934, 28 U.S.C. § 2201, that a collective bargaining agreement contains terms that run afoul of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219. At the time this litigation was filed, federal jurisdiction was soundly based on § 301(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (“LMRA”), 29 U.S.C. § 185(a), as interpreted by this…

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