United Transportation Union v. The Kansas City Southern Railway Company

How courts have described this case

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

• characterizing a “major” dispute as involving the creation of contractual rights
• “ ‘[W]hen the surrounding circumstances are ambiguous, the court’s favor construing the dispute as minor.’ ”
• “ ‘[Wjhen the surrounding circumstances are ambiguous, the court’s favor construing the dispute as minor.’ ”
• “The purpose of the [first] inquiry ... is to determine whether [the] case implicates a question of contract interpretation.”
• the court need not interpret the terms of the agreement, but instead inquires whether the case implicates a question of contract interpretation
• “The purpose of the [first] inquiry ... is to determine whether [the] case implicates a question of contract interpretation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).