Taylor v. Giant Food, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “fair representation claims completely preempt state law, and therefore provide a proper basis for removal from state court, even if a plaintiff characterizes his or her claims as state-law claims.”
• explaining that whether a union’s duty to fairly represent is derived directly from an express provision of the CBA or is “implied from the union’s status as the exclusive bargaining representative,” any claim of a breach is completely pre-empted by federal law
• “[F]air representation claims completely pre-empt state law ... even if a plaintiff characterizes his or her claims as state-law claims”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).