Legal Opinion
Northwest Airlines Corp. v. Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (In re Northwest Airlines Corp.)
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 29, 2007No. Docket Nos. 06-4371-cv(L), 06-4468-cv(CON)PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Chief Judge JACOBS concurs in a separate opinion.
JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge:
This dispute between the Association of Flight Attendants (“AFA”) and Northwest Airlines (“Northwest”) is situated in a peculiar corner of our law more evocative of an Eero Saarinen interior of creative angularity than the classical constructions of Cardozo and Holmes. Northwest, under the protection of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code and with the bankruptcy court’s imprimatur, has rejected the collective-bargaining agreement that until recently governed its relationship with the AFA and imposed new terms…
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