SPELLACY v. AIRLINE PILOTS ASS'N-INTERN.

No. 97-7666.

156 F.3d 120 (1998)

Edward J. SPELLACY, Jr.; Stewart W. Beckett, Jr.; Raymond H. Albers, II; Gordon N. Almquist; Gary K. Armstrong; Donald G. Arneson; James Bailey; W. Schafer Bean; William Harvey Benefield; Tad H. Bingham; Vidmantas K. Bliumfeldas; Rudolph Brabenec; Robert E. Brickey; Michael D. Burke; Dallas E. Butler; James R. Byrne; James Canitz; Gerald W. Cassidy; Robert C. Cassube; Thomas Ceranic; David M. Criley; John W. Cunningham; Donald E. Dale, Jr.; Michael J. Dunn; Thomas G. Ebbert; Gerald L. Ellison; Jerome P. Fox; Robert K. Frank; Howell J. Gannon; Benjamin F. Greer; Robert L. Harrell; Albert G. Harrison; William H. Hart; Reginald W. Havill; Robert H. Hays; David K. Holland; Thomas L. Hurd; David E. Jones; Austin L. Joyner; Terrence J. Kane; David A. Klau; Donald K. Law; Byron C. Lewin; Manuel J. Lewis; Keith J. Mackey; John A. Marshall; Kenneth G. McAdams; Robert C. McGrory; Jan A. Menke; James W. Miller; John R. Neff; Ernest J. Neuwald; Thomas M. O'Dell; Terry W. Pope; Michael E. Ranslam; Frank C. Rice; Richard D. Robbins; Jack J. Rogers; Stanley A. Roitz; K. David Savage; Carl E. Schmeusser; George H. Schumacher; Conrad E. Smith; Dorsey L. Spaulding; Michael N. Stafford; William A. Stevens; Timothy G. Sullivan; M. Joel Thompson; John W. Tiger; Constantine G. Vlahakis; J. Robert Wardin; John S. Wentworth; John L. White; John N. Zoller; Donato D'Angelico; Keith Erlewine; Alto J. Furlong, Jr.; Kenneth Lemming; William A. Pitsker; Harry Shepard; Bill M. Shuster; and Frank Z. White, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AIRLINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION-INTERNATIONAL; J. Randolph Babbitt, III; Richard L. Burke; Sigfrid W. Hauck; Kenneth C. Lankford; John Mitvalsky; Robert E. Anderson; Robert F. Bible; G. Hart Kelley; and Gustave M. Littlefield, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 12, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark R. Kravitz, Wiggin & Dana, New Haven, Connecticut (Daniel J. Klau, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Michael E. Abram, Cohen, Weiss and Simon, New York City (Peter Herman, Thomas N. Ciantra, Tamir W. Rosenblum, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: McLAUGHLIN, PARKER, Circuit Judges, and HURLEY, District Judge.


BACKGROUND

McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.

Pan American Airlines ("Pan Am") went bankrupt. Plaintiffs-Appellants are 88 of the approximately 1600 pilots who used to fly for Pan Am. These pilots were represented by the Airline Pilots Association-International ("ALPA"), the certified collective bargaining representative for pilots employed by all the major airlines operating in the United States. Under ALPA's union structure, the pilots for each airline elect a...

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