Legal Opinion
Charles Gomez v. Government of the Virgin Islands, Department of Public Safety & Police Benevolent Association
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 10, 1989No. 88-3172PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
HUTCHINSON, Circuit Judge.
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In this case we must decide what statute of limitations applies to a hybrid contract/breach of the duty of fair representation action brought under the Virgin Islands Public Employee Labor Relations Act (PELRA), V.I.Code Ann. tit. 24, §§ 361-383 (Equity Supp.1988) against an employer and a union. The District Court for the District of the Virgin Islands, analyzing the action as a Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA) § 301 hybrid contract/fair representation claim, applied the six month statute of limitations in § 10(b) of the NLRA, 29 U.S.C.A. §…
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