Legal Opinion
Air Line Pilots Ass'n, International v. UAL Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 4, 1989No. Nos. 88-3308, 88-3377 and 88-3387PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This suit arises out of efforts by United Air Lines’ pilots to take over the airline, and by the airline’s directors and the union representing the airline’s machinists to prevent the takeover. When these efforts were first mounted, the airline was a subsidiary of a larger enterprise, and the contemplated takeover was of the entire enterprise. But the pilots wanted to divest the enterprise of its nonairline assets, so that when all the dust settled the pilots would own the airline and nothing else. To simplify exposition we shall pretend that the planned takeover was of…
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