Legal Opinion
Boutté v. Service Employees International Union, Local 73
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 21, 2002No. 01-3434Published
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
The district court dismissed Dawn Boutté’s action against her union, the Service Employees International Union, Local 73, AFL-CIO, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. We affirm.
Civil servant Boutté was employed by the Department of the Army at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, until her job was eliminated in 1993. In May 1994 Boutté was given a temporary position at the Veterans Administration’s Westside Medical Center in Chicago, and in September 1994 she was awarded a permanent job as a clerk at that facility. Boutté’s new salary was substantially lower than at her former position at Fort…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Karahalios v. National Federation of Federal Employees, Local 1263Supreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Carter v. GibbsCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1990
- Abbott v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1998
- Samuel M. Rizzitelli v. Federal Labor Relations AuthorityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2000