Brown v. Maine State Employees Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the plaintiff’s duty of fair representation claim preempted his negligence claim when the claim was based on a union lawyer’s failure to timely file a request to move forward
• holding a union attorney’s failure to meet a filing deadline fell under the duty of fair representation, thereby precluding a negligence claim
• union agents are not personally liable for actions taken in collective bargaining process; negligently missing a filing deadline is within the contours ofthe DFR
• “section 552 imposes a duty to avoid negligent misrepresentation, irrespective of privity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).