Andrews v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

I

If this employee wanted reinstatement and back pay, there would be merit in remitting him to the remedies under the Railway Labor Act. But he does not want that relief. Rather, he desires to quit the railroad, to have no further jobs with it, and to be compensated in dollars for his wrongful discharge.

The cases on which the Court relies to overrule Moore v. Illinois Central R. Co., 312 U. S. 630, are quite different. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Chicago R. & I. R. Co., 353 U. S. 30, involved claims of existing employees, not for damages for wrongful discharge, but for “additional…