Legal Opinion
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided October 29, 1968No. Civ. No. 12796PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RULING ON MOTION FOR TEMPORARY INJUNCTION
BLUMENFELD, District Judge.
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction is based upon 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 (action arising under federal law) and 1337 (action arising under acts regulating interstate commerce).1
Facts
The controversy in this case deals with wages paid to firemen employed on passenger train trips between New Haven and Boston, a distance of 157 miles. Defendant’s trains make this trip 102 times per week each way. For many years before September 1, 1968, it was the practice to assign firemen to two consecutive passenger runs, the outbound and the return trip. For…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. v. BurleySupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Slocum v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Order of Railway Conductors of America v. PitneySupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. Louisville & Nashville RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Rutland Railway Corporation v. Brotherhood of Locomotive EngineersCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1962
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Airline Flight Attendants in the Service of Texas International Airlines, Inc. v. Texas International Airlines, Inc.District Court, S.D. Texas · 1976
- Local Lodge 2144 v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1969
- Local Lodge 2144 v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1969
- Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees v. St. Johnsbury & Lamoille County Railroad/M.P.S. Associates, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1986
- United Transportation Union v. Burlington Northern, Inc.District Court, D. Minnesota · 1974
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