Brown v. United Air Lines, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER RE: DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION OF, OR, IN THE ALTERNATIVE, INTERLOCUTORY APPEAL FROM, THE ORDER DENYING DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DISMISS, AND TO STAY THE PROCEEDINGS

GERTNER, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

In this putative national class action suit against United Air Lines (“United”), Plaintiffs are skycaps, airline employees who help passengers check in luggage at the curbs of airport terminals. The proposed class includes all skycaps who worked at United terminals after February 1, 2006, when United emerged from bankruptcy. The suit arises from the airline’s…