Legal Opinion
George A. Schiltz v. Burlington Northern Railroad Transportation Communications Union
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 23, 1997No. 96-2810PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHEN M. REASONER, District Judge.
This is an appeal from the district court’s 2 granting summary judgment in favor of Ap-pellees Burlington Northern Railroad (BNR) and the Transportation Communications International Union (TCU), and against Appellant George Schiltz (Schütz). Schütz argues that the district court erred in: (1) determining that BNR had not discriminated against Schütz on the basis of age when it faüed to hire him for various jobs for which Schütz had applied; (2) determining that Schütz’s union seniority rights were based in the Northeastern District, Number 5, as opposed to…
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