Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, and Wabash Federation v. Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis

RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees (the union) moved the District Court to enforce an arbitration award made in its favor by Public Law Board No. 6086, a panel of arbitrators convened under the Rahway Labor Act. The District Court declined to do so and instead granted summary judgment in favor of the union’s opponent, the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis (the railroad). The District Court held that the neutral member of the Public Law Board caused the Board to exceed the scope of its jurisdiction, as defined by the parties’ arbitration…