Legal Opinion
Vaca v. Sipes
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 27, 1967No. 114PublishedCited by 4,276 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
On February 13, 1962, Benjamin Owens filed this class action against petitioners, as officers and representatives of the National Brotherhood of Packinghouse Workers1 and of its Kansas City Local No. 12 (the Union), in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri. Owens, a Union member, alleged that he had been discharged from his employment at Swift & Company’s (Swift) Kansas City Meat Packing Plant in violation of the collective bargaining agreement then in force between Swift and the Union, and that the Union had “arbitrarily, capriciously and without just or reasonable reason or cause”…
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