Legal Opinion
Bortherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen v. Southern Pacific Company (Texas and Louisiana Lines), Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Party
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 30, 1971No. 30803_1PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:
In this labor case railroad brotherhoods, belying their names, engaged in fratricidal war involving their paterfamilias, the Southern Pacific Railroad. Congress, finding the courts ill-equipped to exercise Solomonic wisdom in these family disputes, derailed most judicial interventions by means of the Railway Labor Act. We therefore decline to interfere in this intramural controversy and remit the parties to the tribunal created by Congress for final arbitration.
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2Cases cited27 opinions
- Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. v. BurleySupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Chicago River & Indiana RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Jacksonville Terminal Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Detroit & Toledo Shore Line Railroad v. United Transportation UnionSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Transportation-Communication Employees Union v. Union Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
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