Legal Opinion
Griffin v. Illinois Cent. R. Co.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided December 16, 1949No. 48 C 444PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LA BUY, District Judge.
The complaint herein is brought by two residents of the State of Mississippi employed as locomotive firemen by the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad Company, and its successor, Illinois Central Railroad Company, in their individual behalf and as class representatives of all Negro firemen employed by the railroad.
Defendant Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is an unincorporated international railway labor union, whose membership is drawn from white locomotive engineers and firemen emploj^ed by railroads ■ in the United States and Canada and from which Negro firemen are…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Order of Railway Conductors of America v. PitneySupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Graham v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & EnginemenSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Tunstall v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & EnginemenCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1945
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen v. GrahamCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1949
- Order of Railroad Telegraphers v. New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1946
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3Cited by16 opinions
- United States v. Buddy Joe BarnardCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1974
- Rutland Railway Corporation v. Brotherhood of Locomotive EngineersCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1962
- American Airlines, Inc. v. Air Line Pilots Ass'n, InternationalDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1958
- Grantham v. Challenge-Cook Bros.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1969
- Foster v. LewisNevada Supreme Court · 1962
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