PILOT FREIGHT CARRIERS v. INTERN. BRO. OF TEAMSTERS

No. 80-1547.

659 F.2d 1252 (1981)

PILOT FREIGHT CARRIERS, INC., Appellee, v. INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS, CHAUFFEURS, WAREHOUSEMEN AND HELPERS OF AMERICA, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 14, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Higgins, Washington, D. C. (Leslie J. Ruben, Charles W. Saber, George Kaufmann, Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellant.

J. W. Alexander, Jr., Charlotte, N. C. (William Kearns Davis, Winston-Salem, N. C., Blakeney, Alexander & Machen, Charlotte, N. C., Bell, Davis & Pitt, Winston-Salem, N. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before BUTZNER, SPROUSE and ERVIN, Circuit Judges.


BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:

The principal issue in this appeal is whether Pilot Freight Carriers' claim against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) for damages attributed to a strike should have been submitted to arbitration. Pilot brought this action under § 301 of the Labor Management and Relations Act of 1947, 29 U.S.C. § 141 et seq. IBT pleaded as an affirmative defense that the controversy was subject to arbitration and moved for summary...

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