Legal Opinion
Jerry Jones v. General Electric Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 24, 1996No. 95-2281PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
Jerry Jones, as the representative of a group of employees of the General Electric Company’s Decatur, Indiana plant, appeals the dismissal of his complaint which sought enforcement of plant closing provisions of a collective bargaining agreement under § 301 of the Labor and Management Relations Act of 1947 (“LMRA”), 29 U.S.C. § 185. Because we find the applicable statute of limitations makes the suit untimely, we affirm the district court’s dismissal of the complaint.
I. BACKGROUND
Plaintiff-appellant Jerry Jones brought this case on behalf of a group of…
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