Glover v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

I join in the Court’s opinion with one addition and one reservation.

I believe that Richardson v. Texas & N. O. R. Co., 242 F. 2d 230 (1957), decided by the Fifth Circuit some years before its decision in the present case, also supports today’s holding that the federal courts may grant railroad employees ancillary relief against an employer who aids and abets their union in breaching its duty of fair representation. A contrary result would bifurcate, and needlessly proliferate, litigation.

I think it clear that footnote 4 of Conley v. Gibson, 355 U. S. 41, 44 (1957), did not — as some of the…