Legal Opinion
Fred Thompson v. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, an Unincorporated Railroad Labor Organization, National in Scope
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 22, 1963No. 8729_1PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.
Does invidious discrimination, not based on race, furnish ground for a complaint in a federal court against a labor union by a person it is statutorily empowered to represent? The question/ arises on this appeal of plaintiff Thompson from an order of the District Court granting a motion to dismiss and directing a verdict for the defendant, Brotherhoood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Initiated on October 18, 1958, 1 in the Court of Common Pleas of Florence County, South Carolina, the action was removed to the federal District Court. There the defendant moved to quash service,…
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