We posted about Quon v. Arch Wireless here. This was the 9th Circuit's opinion holding a county liable for auditing deputy sheriffs' text messages. The U.S. Supreme Court granted review of that case today (article here.) The court will have a decision out by June. We of course will keep track of it for you. But this could be a way for the court to issue a key privacy ruling about electronic communications. We shall see...
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U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies Railway Labor Act Arbitration
If you have no interest in the Railway Labor Act or its arbitration procedures, skip this post.
The Supreme Court unanimously decided that under the Railway Labor Act, there is no jurisdictional requirement that the parties hold certain pre-arbitration proceedings, called "conferences." The arbitration panel erred when it held it had no power to decide 5 grievances because there was insufficient evidence of such conferences. However, the Court refused to consider the issue under the Constitution as a denial of due process. (I warned you to skip this post.)
The case is Union Pacific Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the opinion is here.
The Supreme Court unanimously decided that under the Railway Labor Act, there is no jurisdictional requirement that the parties hold certain pre-arbitration proceedings, called "conferences." The arbitration panel erred when it held it had no power to decide 5 grievances because there was insufficient evidence of such conferences. However, the Court refused to consider the issue under the Constitution as a denial of due process. (I warned you to skip this post.)
The case is Union Pacific Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the opinion is here.
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