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CATERPILLAR INC. v. WILLIAMS

No. 86-526.

482 U.S. 386 (1987)

107 S.Ct. 2425

96 L.Ed.2d 318

CATERPILLAR INC. ET AL. v. WILLIAMS ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 9, 1987

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald D. Skoning argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Charles C. Jackson, J. Stephen Poor, Theodore R. Johnson, and Nancy L. Snowden.

Fritz Wollett argued the cause and filed a brief for respondents.*

Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations by Marsha Berzon, David M. Silberman, and Laurence Gold; for the Employment Law Center of the San Francisco Legal Aid Society by Joan M. Graff, Robert Barnes, and John M. True; and for the Plaintiff Employment Lawyers Association by Paul H. Tobias.

JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question for decision is whether respondents' state-law complaint for breach of individual employment contracts is completely pre-empted by § 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 (LMRA), 61 Stat. 156, 29 U. S. C. § 185, and therefore removable to Federal District Court.

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