Emery Air Freight, Corp. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 295

JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

In 1997, plaintiff-appellant Emery Air Freight lost an arbitration proceeding against Local 478, one of its New Jersey-based union locals, and pursuant to the arbitral award, assigned certain hauling routes (previously undertaken by non-union personnel) to members of Local 478. Later, Local 295, one of Emery’s New York-based union locals, claimed the same work assignments and initiated an arbitration proceeding against Emery. Emery filed suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Block, J.) to restrain the second arbitration proceeding…