Miguel Garcia v. Zenith Electronics Corporation and Local 1031, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Afl-Cio

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the union satisfied its duty of fair representation where it pursued a rational arbitration strategy even though the employee would have preferred a different strategy
• noting that “the attorney–client privilege is generally waived when the client asserts claims or defenses that put his attorney’s advice at issue in the litigation”
• noting that even if the plaintiff employee disagreed with the union attorney’s decision not to let the plaintiff testify, it was not the court’s place to question the union’s strategic choices
• deferring to un- ion’s decision not to allow plaintiff to testify on his own be- half
• deferring to un- ion’s decision not to allow plaintiff to testify on his own be- half
• deferring to un- ion’s decision not to allow plaintiff to testify on his own be- half

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).