In re NORTHWEST AIRLINES CORPORATION, Debtor,
Northwest Airlines Corporation, and all other plaintiffs, Plaintiff-Appellee
v.
Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO, and all other defendants, Defendant-Appellant,
Air Line Pilots Association, International ("ALPA"), Intervenor-Appellant.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued: November 28, 2006.
Decided: March 29, 2007.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Edward J. Gilmartin (Robert S. Clayman and Jeffrey A. Bartos, Guerrieri, Edmond, Clayman & Bartos, P.C., on the brief) Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO, Washington D.C., for Defendant-Appellant.
Richard M. Seltzer (Thomas N. Ciantra and Oriana Vigliotti, on the brief), Cohen, Weiss & Simon, New York, NY, for Intervenor-Appellant.
Brian P. Leitch, Arnold & Porter, LLP, Washington, D.C. (Timothy Atkeson, Timothy MacDonald, Kent A. Yalowitz, and Brandon H. Cowart, Arnold & Porter, LLP, New York, N.Y. and Denver, Colorado; Bruce R. Zirinsky, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, LLP, New York, NY, on the brief) for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Heidi A. Wendel, Assistant United States Attorney (Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Melanie Hallums and David S. Jones, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Amicus Curiae United States of America.
John J. Gallagher (Neal D. Mollen and Margaret H. Spurlin, on the brief), Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP, Washington D.C., for Amici Curiae: Air Transport Association of America, Inc., David A. Berg, on the brief. Airline Industrial Relations Conference, Robert J. DeLucia, on the brief.
William R. Wilder (Stefan P. Sutich, on the brief), Baptiste & Wilder, P.C., Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Jeffrey Freund, Bredhoff & Kaiser, P.L.L.C. (Jonathan Hiatt, American Federation of Labor on the brief), Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Lee Seham (Lucas K. Middlebrook and Stanley J. Silverstone, on the brief), Seham, Seham, Meltz & Petersen, LLP, White Plains, NY, for Amicus Curiae Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association.
Scott L. Hazan (Brett H. Miller and Lorenzo Marinuzzi, on the brief), Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen, P.C., New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Northwest Airlines Corporation.
Before: JACOBS, Chief Judge, WALKER and RAGGI Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Chief Judge JACOBS concurs in a separate opinion.
JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge:
This dispute between the Association of Flight Attendants ("AFA") and Northwest Airlines ("Northwest") is situated in a peculiar corner of our law more evocative of an Eero Saarinen interior of creative angularity than the classical constructions of Cardozo and Holmes. Northwest, under the protection of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code and with the bankruptcy court's imprimatur...
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