Legal Opinion

Gore v. Trans World Airlines

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided April 26, 2000No. 99-2363PublishedCited by 145 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HANSEN, Circuit Judge.

Andrew Gore appeals the district court’s1 dismissal of his case due to preemption under the Railway Labor Act (RLA), 45 U.S.C. §§ 151-163, 181-188 (1994 & Supp. II 1996). We affirm.

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Andrew Gore is employed as a mechanic by Trans World Airlines (TWA) at its Maintenance and Engineering Center, also known as the Overhaul Base, in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a member of the International Association of Machinist and' Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO and the terms of his employment are subject to a collective bargaining agreement.

On the evening of December 15, 1996, Gore was…

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