Maine Central Railroad Company v. United Transportation Union

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “it is not for [the court] to weigh, and decide who has the better of the argument,” and adding that, “[i]f the court did this, it [would] overstep[] its bounds and usurp[] the arbitrator’s function”
• \[P]ast practices and working conditions may become part of the collective bargaining agreement notwithstanding silence in the agreement itself.\
• “[P]ast practices and working conditions may become part of the collective bargaining agreement notwithstanding silence in the agreement itself.”
• court’s role is limited to determining whether the railroad’s assertion is “even arguable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).