ANCHORAGE POLICE DEPT. v. FEICHTINGER

No. S-8069.

994 P.2d 376 (1999)

ANCHORAGE POLICE DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION, Petitioner, v. Eric "Frank" FEICHTINGER and Jacqueline A. Feichtinger, individually and as natural parents and next friends of M.F. and K.F., minors, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

December 30, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mauri Long and Kristen D. Pettersen, Dillon & Findley, P.C., Anchorage, for Petitioner.

Edgar Paul Boyko, Edgar Paul Boyko and Associates, and S. Brent Thompson, Law Office of S. Brent Thompson, Anchorage, for Respondents.

Before MATTHEWS, Chief Justice, COMPTON, EASTAUGH, FABE, and BRYNER, Justices.


OPINION

EASTAUGH, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

A municipal employee sued his union for breach of the union's duty of fair representation because it refused to represent him in an arbitration in which he unsuccessfully challenged his termination. The superior court denied the union's motion for summary judgment, and the union now petitions for review of that denial. We hold that if a union's breach of its duty of fair representation seriously...

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