Legal Opinion
Binns v. Panama Canal Co.
District Court, Canal Zone
Decided November 8, 1978No. Civ. No. 77-0262-BPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHARLES R. SCOTT, Senior District Judge.
The four plaintiffs in this case are employees of the cross-isthmus railroad operated by the Panama Canal Company in the Canal Zone. They are an engineer, a conductor, a dispatcher, and a trainman. They seek backpay from July, 1974, for the difference between the wages they received and the wage rate received by their counterparts who are employees of the Alaska Railroad in the State of Alaska. Plaintiffs contend that under the Canal Zone Code and its implementing regulations, 2 C.Z.C. §§ 141 and 144 and 35 C.F.R. §§ 253.2(f) and 253.131(a),…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Walter A. Reinheimer v. The Panama Canal CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
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