Accardi v. Pennsylvania Railroad

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that provision containing sense of Congress language showed “continuing purpose of Congress” already established in another law
• explaining that the “use of the label ‘compensated service’ cannot obscure” the illusory nature of the work requirement
• stating that a “label … cannot obscure” the “real nature” of a payment
• collective bargaining agreement cannot authorize denial of perquisites of seniority, namely, severance pay, due reemployed veteran
• “The use of the label ‘compensated service’ cannot obscure the fact that the real nature of these payments was compensation for loss of jobs.”
• “[T]he cost to an employee of losing his job is not measured by how much work he did in the past ... but by the rights and benefits he forfeits by giving up his job.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).