Legal Opinion
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen v. Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway Company
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 10, 1961No. 16882PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARNES, Circuit Judge.
This action arises out of a prior adjudication wherein Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway Company, appellee herein, sought and was denied an injunction against a strike then contemplated by appellants. Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Ry. Co. v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, D.C.Mont.1958, 168 F.Supp. 911. Jurisdiction, then and presently, exists because the action arises under the laws of the United States; viz. the Railway Labor Act, 45 U.S.C.A. §§ 151-163, and the amount in controversy exceeds the jurisdictional limit in force when the action was originally…
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