Ralph Derrico v. Sheehan Emergency Hospital

MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant Ralph Derrico sued in New York state court for breach of what he called a state law contract of employment. The obligation he sought to enforce was identical to a term in an expired collective bargaining agreement providing that he could only be fired for just cause. He argues that this term was transformed after expiration into an independent contract under state law because federal law maintains terms of expired collective bargaining agreements in effect for some purposes after expiration, and because the relationship of employer and employee…