Ritter v. WESTERN ELEC. CO., INC.

MEMORANDUM

TROUTMAN, District Judge.

Promulgation of a rule of law often requires subsequent refinement and explication as courts apply it to new and unanticipated circumstances. The process does not end with the original articulation, “for the many and varying facts to which it will be applied cannot be foreseen”. 1 In the case at bar circumstances which will justify a union member’s failure to exhaust internal union remedies prior to institution of legal proceedings require more explicit description. Plaintiff alleges that defendants International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers…