Brownlee v. Yellow Freight System, Inc.

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

This interlocutory appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) presents the question whether Mary Brownlee, David Coco, Cynthia Land-*746maim, and Palmer Wade will receive a jury trial on their claims against their union and their employer. The answer to that question depends upon whether their claims— that their union did not adequately represent them and that their employer broke its collective-bargaining agreement — require legal rights to be settled. The District Court1 decided that the plaintiffs were entitled to a jury, and the defendants have taken this appeal before proceeding…