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Dave Thomas v. United Steelworkers Local 1938

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided February 20, 2014No. 12-3625PublishedCited by 151 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.

Dave Thomas appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of United Steelworkers Local 1938 (Local 1938); United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW); 2 and Jon Malek on Thomas’s state-law defamation claim -arising out of a fact-finding meeting concerning a workplace dispute. For the reasons stated below, we reverse and remand.

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Thomas is an employee of United States Steel (USS), a steel company that operates and owns several iron ore mines. Thomas works in the pit 3…

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