Legal Opinion
Sammy L. Clark v. Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company Amalgamated Local No. 451, United Plant Guard Workers of America
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 19, 1991No. 90-2361PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COPENHAVER, District Judge:
The prime issue in this appeal is whether the district court properly determined that appellant’s state-law negligence claims against his employer for wrongful discharge as a result of his failure to pass a drug-screen test and against his union for negligent representation after his discharge are preempted by § 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA). Appellant also claims plain error with respect to appellees’ use of peremptory challenges to exclude blacks from the jury panel, errors in evidentiary rulings at trial, error in the court’s amendment of the…
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