Local Union No. 59, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Afl-Cio v. Namco Electric, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
A union seeks to bind a corporate employer to a collective bargaining agreement to which the employer was not a party on varying claims, not fully differentiated in the pleadings, that the corporation was a sham, a fictitious entity, or the alter ego of a corporation that was a signatory to the agreement. Concluding that, on the record before us, the material facts beyond genuine dispute establish that the two corporations were real, separate entities and that, therefore, no breach of contract can be established, we affirm a summary judgment for the corporate…
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