William J. O'Brien v. Consolidated Rail Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the FDCPA applies to debts incurred for 6 personal rather than commercial reasons
• finding state discrimination claim was preempted by the LMRA because seniority was among the litigated issues and was also covered in the CBA, which contained explicit rules and regulations governing an employee's fitness and ability to perform safely the functions of a stevedore
• “[T]hough for pleading purposes the line between sufficient facts and insufficient conclusions is often blurred, we nonetheless require that it be plotted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).