Legal Opinion
Daniel K. Graf v. Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company, an Illinois Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 21, 1986No. 85-2905PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This case, before us for the second time, see 697 F.2d 771 (7th Cir.1983), again raises interesting questions of 'federal jurisdiction and labor law. The railroad fired Graf in 1977, ostensibly for having falsified his employment application forms — he says really because he had filed a suit against the railroad under the Federal Employers Liability Act, 45 U.S.C. §§ 51 et seq. The collective bargaining contract between Grafs union and the railroad gave him 60 days in which to appeal his discharge, initially to a higher supervisory layer within the railroad. Graf asked…
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