Hamm v. Secretary of Health & Human Services

How courts have described this case

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• refusing to hold union liable for portion of damages caused by its breach but stating that damages can be apportioned when the union “exacerbate[s the employee’s] loss or diminution of wages, beyond that for which the employer could be charged”
• union is not liable for back pay where employee is foreclosed from recovering against company by his dismissal of claim against company at trial
• trial court may weigh evidence and consider credibility of witnesses
• assessing the employer for all backpay
• assessing the employer for all backpay

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).