Legal Opinion
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Professional Fire Fighters Ass'n Local 3217 v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 24, 1992No. 89-5411PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
National and Dulles Airports are federally-owned, and until 1987 were operated by the Federal Aviation Administration. In late 1986 Congress authorized the Secretary of Transportation to transfer the airports’ control to a newly-created regional entity, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, by means of a 50-year lease. Metropolitan Washington Airports Act of 1986, 49 U.S.C. app. §§ 2451-2461. The Secretary made the transfer in 1987. The union representing airport firefighters (who had been employed by the FAA but were transferred to the Authority’s…
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