Captain Stewart W. Beckett v. Air Line Pilots Association

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a party intended to create a trust despite the party’s assertions to the contrary
• distinguishing consent decree between private parties from consent decrees resulting from a civil antitrust action brought by the government
• relying in part on a settlement agreement’s use of “the mandatory ‘shall’” to conclude that it created a trust
• although not party to consent decree, non-union pilots were permitted to enforce decree against union
• although not party to consent decree, non-union pilots were permitted to enforce decree against union
• it is a “well-established principle that a trial court retains jurisdiction to enforce consent decrees and settlement agreements”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).