Air Line Pilots Association, International v. Northwest Airlines, Inc. Air Line Pilots Association, International v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.

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• citing, inter alia, Andrews v. Louisville & N. R. R., 406 U.S. 320, 325 (1972)
• distinguishing between claims of a violation of “the terms and conditions of the pension plan” and allegations of “the obligatory fiduciary standards of ERISA”
• “The arbitral board’s jurisdiction is exclusive and cannot be avoided by efforts to bring the dispute directly into court.”
• independent claim if air carrier breached fiduciary duty through deliberate and unnecessary withholding of funds due pilots and use of funds to decrease its own contributions to trust fund
• since ERISA does not supersede any federal law, portion of the complaint concerning violations of the terms of the plan must be arbitrated since the Railway Labor Act required it
• since ERISA does not supersede any federal law, portion of the complaint concerning violations of the terms of the plan must be arbitrated since the Railway Labor Act required it

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