INTERN. LONGSHOREMEN'S ASS'N v. NAT. MEDIATION BD.

No. 85-5363.

785 F.2d 1098 (1986)

INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S ASSOCIATION, AFL-CIO, Appellant, v. NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 21, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest L. Mathews, Jr., with whom Thomas W. Gleason, New York City, was on brief, for appellant.

Edward R. Cohen, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Richard K. Willard, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., Robert S. Greenspan, Dept. of Justice and Ronald E. Etters, Gen. Counsel, Nat. Mediation Bd., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellee, Nat. Mediation Bd. Anthony J. Steinmeyer and Marleigh Dover, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., also entered appearances for appellee, Nat. Mediation Bd.

Roy A. Giles, Raleigh, N.C., was on brief, for appellee, North Carolina Ports Ry. Com'n. Dennis P. Myers, Raleigh, N.C., entered an appearance for appellee, North Carolina Ports Authority.

Before MIKVA, GINSBURG and SILBERMAN, Circuit Judges.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GINSBURG.

GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:

This is a case in which we confront two lines of decisions that start from the same station but now run on separate tracks. The district court followed the line that does not govern this case and disregarded the one that does. Because both we and the district court are obliged to follow the law of the circuit training most directly on this controversy, we must reverse the district...

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