George Jackson v. Liquid Carbonic Corporation

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents a narrow question, but one of considerable significance. It requires that we decide whether an ex-employee’s state-law claims for invasion of privacy, mounted in the wake of the employer’s unilateral inauguration of a drug-testing program (on the supposed authority of a collective bargaining agreement), are preempted by the terms and tenor of section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 185 (1982).1 The district court answered this inquiry in the affirmative, and dismissed the former employee’s suit. Although we regard the question…