Legal Opinion
Heard v. SBC Ameritech Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 23, 2006No. 05-2165UnpublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Circuit Judge.
The appellant, Venus Heard, appeals the district court’s denial of her motion to amend her complaint. Because the promissory estoppel claim that Heard sought to add to her complaint is pre-empted by Section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act (the “LMRA”), 29 U.S.C. § 185(a) et seq., and amendment would— as the district court properly held — be futile, we affirm.
Heard is a former employee of the appellee, SBC Ameritech (“Ameritech”). Because of her own health problems and those of her minor son, Heard was frequently absent from her job. In late 2002,…
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