TRENT v. BOLGER

No. 87-1079.

837 F.2d 657 (1988)

Richard S. TRENT, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William BOLGER, Postmaster General and Successors, in his official capacity; American Postal Worker's Union; Prince George's Area Local Union; American Postal Worker's Union AFL-CIO, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 29, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Getz Levenson (Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, Washington, D.C., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Lori Joan Dym, Office of Labor Law, U.S. Postal Service, Washington, D.C. (Breckenridge L. Wilcox, U.S. Atty., Juliet A. Eurich, Asst. U.S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., Stephen E. Alpern, Associate Gen. Counsel, on brief), Anton George Hajjar (O'Donnell, Schwartz & Anderson, Washington, D.C., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, HALL, Circuit Judge, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.


K.K. HALL, Circuit Judge:

Richard Trent brought this hybrid 39 U.S.C. § 1208 action against the Postmaster General and the American Postal Workers Union, alleging that he had been wrongfully discharged from employment and that the union had breached its duty of fair representation. The district court granted both the Postal Service's and the Union's motion for summary judgment on the ground that the action was barred...

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