Legal Opinion
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees v. CSX Transportation, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 2, 2007No. 06-2744PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, Circuit Judge.
A dozen unions 1 contend that five railroad carriers 2 have violated collective bargaining rights in their interpretation of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq. Cases involving this controversy, filed in various federal courts, 3 were consolidated in the Northern District of Illinois, where a declaratory judgment was entered that if a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) grants employees the right to determine when or how they use paid vacation or personal leave, those provisions prevent the railroads from substituting contractual leave for…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. HardisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Radzanower v. Touche Ross & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Robert D. Benson v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Karen Pierce Harvey ArmstrongCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1995
- Branch v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
- Steven Lang v. Illinois Department of Children and Family ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2004
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Quinn v. GatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2009
- Blagojevich v. GatesDistrict Court, C.D. Illinois · 2008
- Sherfel v. GassmanDistrict Court, S.D. Ohio · 2012
- Brotherhood Of Maintenance Of Way Employees v. Csx TransportationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2007
- Pat Quinn v. Robert GatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2009
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