John Espinal v. Northwest Airlines Larry Nunan Joel Krueger Susan Jordan

How courts have described this case

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• holding that employee’s state law discrimination claims were not preempted by the RLA, but breach of contract claims were
• holding that plaintiff’s state-law claims were not preempted by the RLA after conducting a three-part analysis into the legal character of the claims, namely: “(1) Does the CBA contain provisions that govern the actions giving rise to the state claim? (2
• holding that employee’s state disability claim was not preempted where the CBA contained general provisions on physical fitness but “d[id] not provide a framework for challenging determinations that an employee is not physically fit” or “a mechanism to accommodate disabled workers”
• “To determine whether the claim is preempted by the RLA, courts should apply the preemption test used in cases under the [LMRA].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).