Long Island Railroad v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad

How courts have described this case

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

• bringing claims under the Labor-Management Relations Act (“LMRA”) and Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”)
• finding certification under either subsection appropriate because of the risk of inconsistent results and because of the clear appropriateness of injunctive and declaratory relief for the class as a whole
• “the test for commonality ... is not demanding” where defendant altered retirees’ healthcare benefits, the test is met despite the presence of individual “factual and legal variations”
• commonality established even though plaintiffs retired at different times and under different CBAs
• “[T]he test for typicality is not demanding.”
• “[T]he test for typicality is not demanding.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).