SOLDINGER v. NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC.

Docket No. B084660.

51 Cal.App.4th 345 (1996)

GERALDINE SOLDINGER, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC., Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

November 27, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman, Todd W. Bonder, Lisa M. Jacobsen, Stacy J. Barancik, Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Barbara W. Ravitz and Barry M. Wolf for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Rintala, Smoot, Jaenicke & Brunswick, J. Larson Jaenicke, Alan M. Brunswick and Melodie K. Larsen for Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

ALDRICH, J.

This case involves the scope of federal preemption under the Railway Labor Act (RLA), 45 United States Code section 151 et seq. The primary question presented is whether an airline employee may pursue available state law remedies against her employer for religious discrimination, retaliation, and failure to accommodate her religious beliefs or whether she may seek redress only through the RLA's arbitral mechanism...

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