William D. Benoni v. Boston and Maine Corporation

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• noting that “[a]lthough the RLA has no statute of limitations of its own, the courts . . . have borrowed the six-month limitations period of section 10(b) of the National Labor Relations Act . . . and applied it to actions claiming unfair labor practices under the RLA”
• even if statute “plain and unambiguous,” should not apply literal meaning if such an application would lead to absurd result or thwart purpose of statute

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