Legal Opinion
Underwood v. Venango River Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 28, 1993No. 91-3739PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff-appellant Robert Underwood along with 217 other plaintiffs have alleged that the defendants committed acts of wire fraud and mail fraud in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 18 U.S.C. § 1961, et seq. The district court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ fourth amended complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction on the ground that the Railway Labor Act (RLA), 45 U.S.C. § 151, et seq., preempted the plaintiffs’ claims. We affirm.
I. FACTS
The plaintiff-appellants are former employees of the…
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