United Independent Flight Officers, Inc. v. United Air Lines, Inc., & Air Line Pilots Association, International

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a six-month statute of limitations applies to breach of DFR claims under the RLA
• explaining that the DFR claim against the airline’s union, which is subject to the RLA, must be brought under the RLA instead of under the LMRA
• distinguishing from Adams a case involving negotiation and implementation of a plan covered by ERISA
• finding the “duties imposed on a fiduciary are inconsistent with the demands of negotiation and collective bargaining”
• noting fact of dual nature of the defendant as administrator and as fiduciary did not change the conclusion
• specifically applying six-month limitation period to unfair representation claim in the negotiation process

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).