Local 514 Transport Workers Union v. Keating

CERTIFICATION OF QUESTIONS OF STATE LAW

MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiffs1 filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma seeking a declaration that numerous provisions of article XXIII, § 1A of the Oklahoma Constitution were preempted by federal law and that any remaining non-preempted provisions of § 1A were not severable from the preempted provisions. Although the district court concluded that the majority of the provisions of article XXIII, § 1A were not preempted by the relevant federal labor laws, it did conclude that § 1A(B)(5)…