Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe 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 a dispute was “minor,” because it would “turn on the meaning” of a particular clause of the CBA in question
• defining a “minor” dispute as one “involving interpretation and enforcement of existing CBAs”
• “[I]f doubt arises about the classification of a dispute, the dispute is also considered to be minor.”
• even applying the standards for a “facial” attack, the district court properly determined that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction
• “[I]f doubt arises about the classification of a dispute, the dispute is also considered to be minor.”
• “there is no bright line to differentiate between major and minor disputes”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).