Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n v. Boston & Maine Corp.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER ON PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR AN ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

GENE CARTER, District Judge.

This motion represents one more attempt by the Plaintiff unions to hold the Maine Central both to its obligations under the Railway Labor Act (RLA) and to its preexisting collective bargaining agreements in light of orders by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) approving Boston and Maine’s lease of certain portions of track and exempting the leases from regulation under 49 U.S.C. § 10505. In related motions in another case (Railway Labor Executives’ Association v. Guilford…