O'Mara v. Erie Lackawanna Railroad

LUMBARD, Chief Judge:

Plaintiffs brought this action in the District Court for the Western District of New York seeking damages for their allegedly wrongful discharge, without compensation, from employment as stationary engineers with the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. Joined as defendants with the Railroad are the International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers and several of its affiliates and officers. The complaint alleged that the union defendants had been guilty of “hostile discrimination” in refusing to process plaintiffs’ grievances against the Railroad.

The district court granted…